John Nash died, a beautiful mind and problematic – LaRepública.pe

New York. He died at age 86 on a taxi accident, which also killed his wife, Alicia, 82, who accompanied him during much of his complicated life.
 

 Mario Villar. EFE

 

 With a great mind, but hit for years by schizophrenia, John Nash go down in history as one of the most brilliant mathematicians of the twentieth century, but for the general public will always tormented inspiration for “A Beautiful Mind” (“A mind bright “).

 

 Nobel responsible for several advances in the application of mathematical tools to other areas Prize in Economics in 1994 for his “Theory of Games” and Nash is considered one of the greatest mathematical minds of the century. His doctoral thesis in 1951, and included many of his contributions, including the so-called “Nash equilibrium”.

 

 One letter written by a professor in the doctoral program at Princeton said only: “This man is a genius,” according to The New York Times reminds

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 But beyond that mathematical genius, Nash is known for a life marked by mental illness and director Ron Howard took to the big screen in 2001 under the title “A Beautiful Mind”.

 

 The son of an electrical engineer and a teacher, Nash was born in 1928 in Bluefield, West Virginia (USA) and quickly distinguished by their intellectual ability, earning scholarships to study at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh and then at Princeton .

 

 There, he published only 21 years his famous thesis, he shot his fame among the academic community and led him to the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the company RAND military technology.

 

 In parallel, the turmoil in his personal life began with a brief romance of a son born in 1953 and several homosexual and an arrest for indecent exposure. In 1957, Nash married Alicia Lardé, a researcher from El Salvador, and soon mental problems began to worsen.

 

 Diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1959, the mathematician spent long hospitalized seasons, was treated with electric shock therapy, fled for a time to Europe and lost years milling about the halls of Princeton amid the paranoia and conspiracy theories against them.

 

 In 1963 he divorced his wife, however, was always at his side and 1970 took him to live in his house, where he gradually began to overcome the disease.

 

  “A Beautiful Mind”

 

 Sylvia Nasar published in 1995 on the mathematical profile in The New York Times, which later expanded into the book “A Beautiful Mind” in 1998 and that would inspire the film of the same name.

 

 The tape had the approval of Nash, “has much to do with life and with what happened,” the mathematician, his wife said in an interview in 2007, with whom he remarried in 2001. However, notoriety of the film also fueled accusations against Nash, who was forced to deny being anti-Semitic.