Summary Of A Beautiful Mind

The multiple Oscar winning biographical movie A Beautiful Mind tells the story based on the life of the famous Nobel Prize winning mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. The movie start with John Forbes Nash in graduate school at Princeton University. At Princeton, he meets a group of graduate students and his roommate Charles Herman. John Forbes Nash was one of the two admired Carnegie Scholarship for mathematics winner at Princeton. At Princeton University, John Forbes Nash was one of the two co-recipient of the prestigious scholarship. During his stay at Princeton, John Forbes Nash feel that he is under extreme amount of pressure to publish his own original idea and breakthrough in the field of mathematics. Additionally, John Forbes Nash feel …show more content…
The movie then showed Nash working with the Pentagon, trying to crack Soviet Union’s telecommunication code, and working with a mysterious supervisor William Parcher of the Department of Defense. The movie showed that John Forbes Nash become obsessive about finding and decoding the patterns and his work for the Department of defense, showing him deliver his results to a secret mailbox at a secret location. The movie also showed John Forbes Nash meets his wife Alicia Larde, who was one of John Forbes Nash’s student. In one of John Forbe Nash’s guest lecture, the movie showed John Forbes trying to run away from a group of men lead by Dr. Rosen a psychiatrist, whom John Forbes Nash believes is secret agents from the Soviet Union. After Dr. Rosen stop John Forbes Nash’s attempt to escape, Dr. Rosen forcefully sedates Nash, and sent him to a psychiatric facility. It is at this psychiatric facility, Alicia, the wife of John Forbes Nash discovers that Nash has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. After given a serious of insulin shock therapy, Nash was released to his home with antipsychotic medication to deal with his …show more content…
After an accident involving Nash and his son, Nash realize that the little girl Mercee, Charles Herman and William Parcher are all just his hallucination from his schizophrenia. Alicia decide to stay with Nash to help support him as he decide to deal with the hallucinations without the antipsychotic medication. Nash decide to return to Princeton, with the help of his old friend and rival Martin Hansen, Nash was able to do his work in mathematics in the library and audit classes. Years later, John Forbes Nash learned to ignore his hallucinations and was able to teach again. Finally, in 1994, the fellow professors at Princeton honors Nash for his work and achievement in the field of Mathematics. John Forbes Nash wins the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his work on game theory, which is known as The Nash