At 30, John Nash suffered his first bout of full-blown schizophrenia, a disease sometimes called the "cancer of the mind." Aolicai Nash, his wife, was 26 at the time. "I wanted to help him," she ...

John Nash, like so many of the best scientific minds of the late 1940s and 1950s, was drawn into a military think tank based in Santa Monica, California -- the RAND Corporation. Although Nash ...