According to The New York Times, 1994 Nobel Prize winner and famous mathematician John? Nash died in a taxi accident in New Jersey on Saturday at the age of 86. Nash's work has greatly expanded the scope and strength of modern economic theory. He was tortured by severe mental illness for decades, and finally the story of his recovery was put on the screen and made into a touching film "Beautiful Mind".
According to Gregory Williams of the New Jersey Police Department, Dr. Nash, 86, and his wife Alicia, 82? Nash's taxi lost control and crashed into the guardrail and another car.
Officer Williams said that the taxi was heading south on the New Jersey Toll Road and the driver lost control when trying to overtake it. Dr and Mrs Nash jumped out of the car and were pronounced dead on the spot. The taxi driver and the driver of another car have been taken to hospital for treatment, and their lives are not in danger. At present, no criminal proceedings have been initiated.
Nash is widely regarded as the greatest mathematician in the 20th century. He is famous for his creative thinking and courage to solve difficulties. His recommendation letter for applying for the Ph.D. program in mathematics at Princeton is only one sentence. This man is a genius. ?
? This man is a genius?
John? Nash was born in Lantian, West Virginia on June 1928. His father is an electrical engineer and his mother was a teacher before she got married. John grew up in a loving family, which cultivated his talents. In his early years, John liked to work independently and often went it alone.
His parents guaranteed him a good education, and his father gave him scientific literature for his study. He is regarded as an eccentric in school because he thinks that dancing, sports and other social activities will hinder him from conducting scientific research and experiments. He realized that his intelligence was obviously higher than that of his peers, which led to his arrogance and conceit. John also skipped a grade because his mother tutored him at home.
In his senior year (four-year American university), John won the coveted Westinghouse Scholarship and became one of the ten people in the United States. Then he went to Carnegie Institute of Technology. At 1948, just three years later, he graduated with a master's degree. Although I originally planned to study chemical engineering, I soon found myself full of love for mathematics, so I changed my major. His tutor wrote a letter of recommendation for him, which read:? This man is a genius? .
After graduation, John went to Princeton University. There he developed a game called. Nash? The game requires players to deploy strategies and make plans, and this game has won unanimous appreciation from students. ? Nash? It quickly swept the whole campus, and John also found himself with some friends.
His main achievement at Princeton was the establishment of? Nash equilibrium? This theory applies to game theory. Before his theory, people thought that in game theory and real competition, everyone just wanted to fight for their own interests. Moreover, he founded a theory that everyone can find the best solution for himself on the basis of considering the interests of others. But people didn't understand this theory at that time, and in the next few decades, this theory became notorious.
John seldom goes to class. He insisted that attending classes would ruin his creativity. He is constantly looking for ways to improve himself in the field of mathematics in order to become the greatest mathematician in the world. He often plays Bach while walking in the corridor? Little fugue? Whistle, he often rides his bike in the yard around the campus? 8? Words or? Symbol.
After receiving his doctorate, John moved to Boston, where he became the most special teacher at MIT. He is called by the students? Little professor? Because he is really too young, but he thinks he is superior in intelligence. Colleagues hate his arrogance, but they will tolerate him because he is really a genius. He soon made great discoveries in the field of mathematics, such as geometry and partial differential equations. 1958, he was called one of the most dazzling stars in the field of mathematics by Fortune magazine. However, John still thinks he is a loser because he didn't win the gold medal and the highest prize in the field of mathematics.
The torture of schizophrenia
While teaching at MIT, John met a lady named Eleanor? Steele's woman, and later she was pregnant with his son. After the baby was born, John refused to admit that it was his son, but continued to have sex with her, even though he was already with a man named Alicia? Lardy's students talk about love. At that time, there were only 16 female students among the 800 students at MIT, and Alicia was one of them. 1957 In February, John and Alicia got married. 1959, their son was born.
At that time, John's mental state began to deteriorate. It is believed that the main reason for his psychotic attack is anxiety about work and Alicia's pregnancy. His friends first noticed his strange behavior at a New Year's party. At that time, John dressed up as a baby and curled up on Alicia's lap all night, sucking his thumb. In his game theory class, he called a graduate student to attend the class, but he disappeared for a few weeks and suddenly appeared at the MIT meeting. At the meeting, he claimed that aliens sent him encrypted emails through The New York Times. Once he interrupted a class and said that he appeared on the cover of Life magazine disguised as the Pope. He knew that the Pope was pretending, because 23 was his favorite prime number.
He began to notice that many people on campus were wearing red ties. He thought these people were members of a secret production organization and began to monitor them. When the University of Chicago invited him to take an important position, John refused, saying that he intended to be the emperor of Antarctica. He told his colleagues that alien creatures and secret agencies of the government were cooperating to undermine his credibility, which brought great trouble to his colleagues. The head of the mathematics department thought John was crazy, so he was dismissed from his teaching position.
Finally, John was admitted to McClane Private Hospital near Boston. John is afraid of being locked up and thinks he doesn't belong there. The doctor diagnosed paranoid schizophrenia and prescribed chlorpromazine hydrochloride to calm him down. The doctor treated him with psychoanalysis and called him? Professor? .
After leaving the hospital, he resigned from MIT, took out all his pension and moved to Europe. In Europe, he made various efforts to renounce American citizenship and declare refugee status. Alicia followed him to Europe and sent him back to America. Although he flew back to America, he claimed that he returned to America by boat like a slave in chains.
After returning to America, John began to wander around Princeton University, talking about himself in the third person, writing some strange postcards and talking endlessly about numerology. Alicia got a job at Prince University and tried to support her family. In order to help John return to society, she persuaded Princeton University to give her husband a small amount of math homework. But John refused to sign the W-4 form, saying that the government was plotting against him. He continued to make pay calls to his family under a pseudonym.
196 1, Alicia and her sisters took John to Trenton State Hospital in New Jersey. There, he received insulin coma treatment. This treatment method is to inject a large amount of insulin into patients, which makes them fall into a coma and often causes epilepsy. His colleagues in the field of mathematics were very angry and wrote a letter to the hospital asking the doctor to protect his brain for the benefit of mankind. John was discharged from hospital after six months of insulin treatment, and his family thought he looked terrible at that time.