John Nash And The Nobel Prize

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The nobel prize is an award given by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. The money comes from the fortune of Alfred Nobel who was a Swedish inventor. Alfred Nobel is the founder of the Nobel Prize. The prize consists of a medal, diploma, and a cash award. The award has been given 573 times to 900 people since 1901. One of those to recieve this coveted award is John Nash, a mathematician. John Nash was born June 13th, 1928 in a former coal town, Bluefield, West Virginia. His parents were intelligent. His mother was a teacher, and his father was an engineer. Even at a young age, Nash was deeply into books and kept much to himself. Later in his childhood, he was one of ten kids to recieve the George Westington Award which gave him a …show more content…
He was known by fellow falculty as being "very brash, very boastful, very selfish, very egocentric," and thus, his coworkers did not like him, but tolerated him because of his wealth of knowledge in mathematics. While working at MIT, Nash had a relationship with a woman named Eleanor Stier, a nurse, whom became pregnant with his child. However, Nash refused to put his name on his son 's birth certificate and didn 't support the child financially. Shortly after, Nash began seeing another woman named Alicia Larda, a 21 year old physics major. and in 1957, the two …show more content…
After his release, he had a secured a research position, but took off to Europe alone. Alicia divorced Nash in 1962. Nash comes back to the states and gets a position at Brandeia University in Boston thanks to his colleagues who also had him meet with a psychiatrist who perscribed him anti-psychotic medicine. Nash 's condition improves. Nash begins spending time with Eleanor and his first son, John David. Nash quit taking his medication for fear of the side effects affecting his thinking, and his schizophrenia resurfaced once again. In 1970, Alicia took Nash back into her home just to ensure that he was not homeless. He begins wondering the Princeton campus again while leaving crytic formulas on the blackboards at school. The students named him "The Phantom." In 1980, Nash slowly started to get better and his delusions began to disappear. Some people tend to recover from schizophrenia as they age for unknown reasons. In 1994, Nash recieved the Nobel Prize at the age of 66 for his work on game theory. The game theory is based on decision making. When you choose and action, you must take into consideration the other person 's choices, but also remembering that since you are thinking about their choices, the are also thinking about yours, as well. Nash contructed the idea of "equilibrium" where the idea of thinking about thinking would meet and the strategies of every player is consistent

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