4. In September
1948, Nash entered a
university in
Princeton. He showed
interest in
mathematics;
topology, geometry, g
ame theory
and logic. All of these
were among his
interests but he
escaped to talk about
these subjects.
ARISE ROBY
6. Years later,
he starts to teach lessons in
Princeton University. He
also works in MIT ’s Wheller
Laboratory
to work out Russian’s
potential energy.
ARISE ROBY
7. In February of 1957 Nash married Alicia (his department’s student).
In1958, his wife was pregnant. A few months later Nash’s mental state
became very worried.
ARISE ROBY
8. He started to think that he was a
great man because of his ideas.
He began to hear voices all the
time. He hears telephone calls in
his head. He also sees some
men.
ARISE ROBY
10. His wife takes
him to a
neuropathy
hospital
because his
hallucinations
mix up his
mind.
ARISE ROBY
11. He stays in neuropathy hospital ten
weeks, he has undergone lots of crisis in
there and the doctors gave insulin
shocks him five times a day.
ARISE ROBY
12. Although spending periods
in hospital, his
mathematical work
continued successfully. He
said; “ I would not say that
there is a direct relation
between mathematics and
madness, but there is no
doubt that great
mathematicians suffer from
maniacal characteristics.”
ARISE ROBY