That article was great. It was better than the movie…
Read the first two paragraphs. Misleading article imo
Why do you think it’s misleading ?
Later in his career or life he was very much an “honourary” academic as opposed to an active research or teacher. A former student of his wrote about it on Quora awhile back. Much of what he achieved academically was before he was “fully” (for lack of a better term) schizophrenic. He never went into remission the way people actually do, he was a long term anti medicine patient
Edit: I think people often downplay how serious the illness is and Nash is a self victim of this too. What he did was spectacular, but his belief or understanding of the illness was a bit out of touch imo, in an unhelpful way
But he lived a relatively long life (for schizophrenia, most schizophrenia patients die 15 years earlier than general population), had a wife and a son, something that most schizophrenia patients don’t have. Best regards.
I never finished the film. Will watch it soon.
I do crazy maths in my head too. Staying away from music notes for now in case I do something mentally ill with music.
I already have perfect pitch.
I play chess too.
I did crazy logarithmic and string theory stuff but in simple terms.
If I do real maths I don’t think it will hurt me. But should psychosis ever bite again…
Last year and this year I saw alien numbers manifesting on Uber eats.
Kept adding up numbers to specifics or certain rounding points. Was thinking alien numbers were parallel universes.
The grams on the sweets packs were alien.
I’m Ok now.
Something bizarre would be a haribo variant I’ve never heard of weighing 127g etc. Instead of the standard 100g or 120g. Or 175g.
I think you can square the circle if you add in certain dimensions.
I’m gonna revisit A level maths and mechanics soon. I need it for Chaos Theory at a degree level. I want to go back to University.
if you choose open university, you don’t have to do A level Maths, they start first year from the very beginning (GCSE level stuff). Very good course tbh
John Nash, the mathematician, engaged in correspondence with the National Security Agency (NSA) in 1955, proposing ideas for an encryption-decryption machine. While his ideas were acknowledged, they were not adopted by the agency. The letters and the NSA’s analysis of them were preserved and later declassified, becoming part of the National Archives.
Interesting. Didn’t Alan Turing do something similar.
Went to Open Uni in 2023 to retake Bio. Dropped out cos too depressing studying from home. I need to be around people I think.
Thanks.
I believe he won an Abel Prize-- the Nobel Prize of Mathematics-- because of his work in Mathematics, which he also did later in life after he apparently recovered free from medicine. I see his interviews and stuff, and he seems fine, not someone afflicted by voices in the latter part of his life. You should check out the documentary “A Brilliant Madness” on youtube to know the exact details, but that documentary also doesn’t feature the Abel Prize, which I believe was given for the work he did after becoming ill.
He did that work in the 1950s too. Despite being awarded it much later (Abel Prize) , the actual research was done around the beginning or before onset of schizophrenia
I agree, the lack of socialising is awful.