Wednesday 19 June 2013

John Forbes Nash.

John Forbes Nash is a Mathematician who was born in June, 1928 in Bluefield, Virginia. We currently know him because of the film "A beautiful mind" which is based on his life. Let's talk about him:

In his early life, he was a lonely child, in fact, they say that his main feature was his egocentrism. He didn't play with othe children, he just spent most of his time reading. When he was fourteen he began to be interested in maths and chemistry, then, on 1942, he went into school for first. He was going to study for being an engineer, however, he changed his opinion (with his teacher's help) when he saw his incredible abilityfor Maths, then, he accepted a scholarship for doctorate in mathemathics. On 1957 he met Alice, the girls who was going to be his wife, he spent a great time, but then, a year after their marriage he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, since that moment, all changed. Being only 30 years old, he began to have hallucinations, at first, he believed it was all truth, but he inally found the way of living with it by knowing that the things he saw weren't real.
Nowadays, he is still alive with 84 years old of life, 84 years for giving us a lot of his knowledge of mathematics but also, like theories that we can currently use in our lives like "The Nash equlibrium".

As I've said before, there's a lovely film about his life, so, if you want to know more, let's see it. In addition of being interesting, it have a lot of social messages to give us, messages about love, fellowship, and about fighting for our lives and being ourselves. I think we all must see that film, he deserve it, we deserve it.










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