They contain reversals of fortune, moments of recognition, and, ultimately, a catharsis. Dr. John Nash's life — his early brilliance, his struggle with mental illness, and his slow, willful ...

F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics at Princeton University, is John Nash's colleague and friend. He has taught economics courses on games of strategy, and written books on the ...

John Nash at Novel Prize Ceremony. Alicia Nash. Alfred Nobel, the Swedish industrial giant and inventor, did not include economics when he put together his 1894 will and created prizes in physics ...

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 ...

Since its beginnings, the prize category has been heavily dominated by Americans or by foreign scholars working in the U.S., including, in 1994, John Nash. Meet the Nobel laureates in economics ...

The political backdrop to John Nash's paranoid and geopolitical hauntings included the Cold War, fought not only with spies and bombers stationed abroad, but by FBI agents, demagogue senators ...

Samuel John Nash, 81, of International Falls, Minn., died Friday, Feb. 25, 2011, at his home. Samuel was born Feb. 4, 1930, in Warroad, Minn. He graduated from ...