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JOHN NASH

Born on June 13, From his childhood,


1928 in Virginia he showed clear
(USA) signs of having a
gifted brain

He specialized in the In 1948 he entered


Princeton, an institution
area of mathematics
that in those years
at Carnegie Tech housed geniuses such
University as Einstein.
But John Nash's life
was not so balanced…
While studying at Princeton, he began to show
paranoid traits that made him believe he was
being persecuted by a government conspiracy...
After a long series of internments in
psychiatric institutions…

He decided to face schizophrenia without


consuming drugs…

He lived
with his
disorder for
more than
30 years
After a long time he returns to mathematics
and accepts a position at Princeton

In recognition of
his research
work on game
theory, he was
awarded the
Nobel Prize in
Economics in
1994
John Nash died on May 23, 2015 at 86 years of
age with his wife Alicia Lardé López - Harrsion
after suffering an accident in a taxi in Oslo after
receiving a prize for his contributions in
mathematics…
If you want to know more about
John Nash, you can watch the
movie "a beautiful mind"
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