A beautiful mind whom the world recognised late

May 24, 2015 20:45

Dr John F Nash Jr, a Nobel Prize-winning mathematician whose descent into and recovery from mental illness inspired the Academy Award-winning film A Beautiful Mind, was killed in a car accident on the New Jersey Turnpike.

As a Princeton University graduate student, he had produced a 27-page thesis on game theory -- in essence, the applied mathematical study of decision-making in situations of conflict -- that would become one of the most celebrated works in the field.

Before the academic world could fully recognize his achievement, Dr Nash descended into a condition eventually diagnosed as schizophrenia.

For the better part of 20 years, his once supremely rational mind was beset by delusions and hallucinations.

Click HERE to read the transcript from an interview with Dr Nash at the 1st Meeting of Laureates in Economic Sciences in Lindau, Germany, September 1-4, 2004.

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