A Beautiful Mind: Genius and Schizophrenia in the Life of John Nash by Sylvia Nasar

Author:Sylvia Nasar [Nasar, Sylvia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571266074
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2012-11-14T18:30:00+00:00

Notes

1. The Institute on Differential Geometry took place from mid-June to the end of July 1956 at the University of Washington in Seattle. Dates and participants given in a memorandum from Carl B. Allendoerfer, chairman, department of mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, 5.23.56.

2. John Milnor, e-mail, 8.97.

3. Eugenio Calabi, interview, 3.2.96; John Isbell, professor of mathematics, State University of New York at Buffalo, interview, 6.14.97; Raoul Bott, professor of mathematics, Harvard University, interview, 11.5.95.

4. E-mail from John Nash to Harold Kuhn, 4.16.96.

5. Letter from John Nash to Martha Nash Legg, 11.4.65.

6. The description of Forrester is based on: Arthur Mattuck, interview, 5.21.97, e-mail, 6.13.97; Isbell, interview, 6.14.97; Calabi, interview, 3.2.96; Albert Nijenhuis, interview, 6.17.97, e-mails, 6.13.97; Victor Klee, e-mails, 6.13.97, 6.14.97, 6.16.97; Kuhn, e-mails, 4.16.96, 4.17.96, 4.18.96; Joseph Kohn, interview, 4.17.96; John Walter, interview, 6.13.97; Robert L. Vaught, interview, 6.13.97; Ramesh Gangolli, interview, 6.16.97. Mary Sheetz provided the dates of Forrester’s employment at the University of Washington, e-mail, 6.16.97.

7. Nijenhuis, interview.

8. Mattuck, interview.

9. Isbell, interview.

10. Vaught, interview.

11. Nijenhuis, interview.

12. Vaught, interview.

13. Ibid.

14. Walter, interview.

15. Nash was in Seattle in February of 1967, apparently for a month. Letter from John Nash to Virginia Nash, 2.67.

16. Klee, interview.

17. This scene is reconstructed on the basis of recollections from Martha Nash Legg, interview, 9.2.95.

18. Postcard from John Nash to Virginia and John Nash, Sr., 7.12.56.

19. Jerome Neuwirth, interview, 5.21.97.

20. Jacob Bricker, interview, 5.22.97.

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