s, Paul, 346Abbat, John, 282
ABC conjecture, 21
Aberdeen Proving Ground, 56
Acta Mathematica, 226
Adler, Alfred, 94
AEC (Atomic Energy Commission), 74, 80, 107, 110, 122, 134, 216
Aeschylus, 94
Afriat, Napthali, 284
Air Force, U.S., 105, 107, 110, 121, 134, 135, 187
Alchian, Armen, 119
John Alden Society, 33
Gauss’s proof of the fundamental theorem of; 67
von Neumann and, 81
algebraic geometry, 96
algebraic manifolds, 123–24, 128–32
Amadur, Izzy, 153
Amadur, Ted, 153
Ambrose, Warren, 143, 155–56, 159, 162, 163, 203, 282
American Journal of Mathematics, 226–27
American Mathematical Society (AMS), 38, 226, 245–46, 303
analysis:
complex, 130
at Princeton, 64
“Analyticity of Solutions of Implicit Function Problems with Analytic Data” (Nash), 317–18
Ankeny, Barbara, 202
Ankeny, Nesmith, 202
Annals of Mathematics, 58, 72, 131, 161, 318
anti-Semitism, 58, 135, 136, 137, 146, 216
Anti-Submarine Warfare Operations Evaluation Group (ASWOEG), 116
Appalachian Power Company, 27, 33
Arafat, Yasir, 357
Archimedes, 94
Aristophanes, 94
Army, U.S., 134
Arnold, Henry “Hap,” 106
Arrow, Kenneth:
Nobel awarded to, 107, 358, 360
at RAND, 107–8, 109, 113, 115, 117, 118
artificial intelligence, 102
Artin, Emil, 19, 64, 73, 159, 210, 229, 239, 281
Artin, Karin (Tate), 73, 239, 242
Artin, Natasha, 210
Art of the Fugue, The (Bach), 113
Asimov, Isaac, 105
ASWOEG (Anti-Submarine Warfare Operations Evaluation Group), 116
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 74, 80, 107, 110, 122, 134, 216
auctions, 374–78
Augenstein, Bruno, 107
in Nobel deliberations, 362, 363
Australia, 377
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 113
Bailey, Anna, 343
Balzac, Honoré de, 325
Bamberger family, 54
Baptist Standard, 26
bargaining, 88–91, 129, 149–51
“Bargaining Problem, The” (Nash), 88, 120, 360
BASIC, 71
Baumecker, Peter, 289–90, 292, 294
Baumol, William, 102
Baylor College, 26
Beckenback, Alice, 299
Bell, E. T., 34, 35, 229, 230–31, 232
Bell Jar, The (Plath), 211
Berge, Claude, 243
Bers, Lipman, 246
Best, Richard, 184, 185–86, 189
Binmore, Kenneth, 355
bipolar disorder (manic depressive illness), 18, 258, 318–19
Birkhoff, G. D., 53, 55, 103, 136
Blackwell, David, 117
Blake, William, 13
Bleuler, Eugen, 17
Bleuler, Manfred, 352
Bluefield, West Va., description of, 28
Bluefield Daily Telegraph, 33, 38
Bluefield Supply, 33
Bôcher Prize, 138, 226–27, 237, 243
Bochner, Salomon, 64, 71, 128, 132
Boeing, 342–43
Bohnenblust, H. Frederic, 103, 117
Bombieri, Enrico, 20–21, 229, 230, 388
Borel, Armand, 264, 272, 301, 313
as Annals of Mathematics editor, 318
Carrier Clinic visits of, 307
IAS appointments arranged by, 296, 308
Nashes’ socializing with, 299, 380, 386
Nash recommended by, 321
on Nash’s embedding theorem, 161–62
Nash’s nonsensical calls to, 286
Borel, Emile, 81
Borel, Gaby, 264, 299, 344, 380, 386
Borsuk, Karol, 72
Borsuk conjecture, 72
Boy Scouts, 33
Bradley, Bernard E., 261
Brandeis University, 314–22
Brauer, Fred, 146
Brezhnev, Leonid, 332
Bricker, Jacob Leon, 144, 223, 321
Alicia Larde and, 200–201
Eleanor Stier and, 177, 178, 181, 182, 206–7
Nash’s delusions about, 326
Nash’s relationship with, 180–83, 204, 206–7
bridge, 142
Brieskorn, Egbert, 318
Brod, Max, 278
Brode, Wallace, 279
Bronx High School, 142
Brouwer’s fixed point theorem, 45, 128, 362
Browder, Earl, 153
Browder, Felix, 73, 142, 154, 157, 229, 244, 246–47
Nashes’ British trip and, 233–34
Nashes’ socializing with, 380, 386
on Nash’s defection effort, 281
Nash’s McLean commitment and, 257
Brownian motion, 55
Buchanan, James, 364
Buchwald, Art, 271
Bulletin de la Société Mathématique de France, 298
Bunker Hill Community College, 344
Burr, Stefan, 299
Bush, Vannevar, 137
Calabi, Eugenio, 64, 68, 72, 232, 244–45
Calabi, Giuliana, 245
calculus, tensor, 380
California Institute of Technology, 375
Camus, Albert, 271
Cantorian set theory, 52
Cappell, Sylvain, 99
Carl XVI Gustav, king of Sweden, 379–80
Carleson, Lennart, 223–24, 226, 227
Carnegie Institute of Technology, 35, 39–45, 129, 362
description of, 40
Carrier Clinic, 304, 305–8, 312–13, 343, 344
Cartan, Elie-Joseph, 157
Cartwright, Mary, 57
Casals, Pablo, 193
Cauchy problem, 297–98
Cauvin, Jean-Pierre, 284, 298, 308
Cauvin, Louisa, 308
Central Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Science in Memory of Alfred Nobel, see Nobel Prize in economics
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 134
Centre de la Recherches Nationale Scientifiques, 298
Chamberlain, Gary, 354
Charles, Ray, 255
Chern, Shiing-shen, 72, 236, 279
Chiang Kai-shek, 153
Chicago, University of, 45, 132, 236, 237, 244
China, 153
Choate, Hall & Steward, 153
Chung, Kai Lai, 66
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), 134
John Bates Clark medal for economics, 369
Clark University, 59
C. L. E. Moore instructorships, 132, 135, 139, 142, 157, 160, 162
Clozapine, 329
Clozaril, 384
Cocteau, Jean, 310–11
Cohen, Paul J., 155, 160, 215–16, 230, 236–38, 240, 241, 259, 349
Nash’s McLean commitment and, 253, 257
and onset of Nash’s schizophrenia, 242–243, 250, 251
College de France, 236, 265, 285
1962 conference at, 300–301
Communist Party (Great Britain), 110
Communist Party (U.S.), 135, 152–54
competitive equilibrium, 108
Compleat Strategyst, The (Williams), 83
complex analysis, 130
complex variables, theory of, 67
Compton, Karl, 153
Compton’s Pictured Encyclopedia, 32
continuity theorem, 219–20, 225
continuous geometry, 81
Conway, John, 158
Courant, Richard, 210, 216, 219
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 216–17, 223, 224
Cournot, Antoine-Augustin, 14
Cox, Edward, 278
creativity, schizophrenia and, 15–16
cryptography, 55–56
Cyert, Richard, 40
Cziffra, Peter, 334
Dagens Nyheter, 371
Dahmen, Erik, 368
Dalkey, N., 117
Danskin, John, 280, 282, 284, 296, 301, 303
Eleanor Stier’s complaints to, 296
at game-theory conference, 313
Nash’s behavior described by, 286–87
Nash’s job search and, 283, 284
Nash’s Trenton State hospitalization and, 290–91, 292
Danskin, Odette Larde, 212, 284, 287, 296, 303, 342
Danskin’s marriage to, 283
Nashes’ European stay and, 270, 273, 276, 277, 279, 280
Dasgupta, Partha, 362
Davis, Joyce, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 202, 211, 283, 343
Davis, Martin, 67–68
Davis, Meyer, 271
De Giorgi, Ennio, 219–20, 224, 225
Dejarnette State Sanitarium, 331
Delusion (Glass), 335
de Rham, Georges, 101
Dickason, H. L., 124
Dickinson, Emily, 323
Dictionary of Scientific Biography (Gillespie, ed.), 337
DiMaggio, Joe, 192
Diophantine equations, 45, 334
Dirichlet, Peter Gustave Lejeune, 141
Dix, Dorothea, 289
Doherty, Robert, 40–41
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 18
Douglas Aircraft, 106, 111, 113
Dresher, Melvin, 115, 119, 150
Duchane, Emma, 190, 196, 200–201, 202, 223
Alicia Nash’s apartment with, 262
Nash’s interest in, 317
Nash’s McLean commitment and, 255, 256, 257
and onset of Nash’s schizophrenia, 240, 242, 250, 251
Dudey, Marc, 350
duels, theory of, 121
Duffin, Richard, 41, 44–45, 46
Duke Journal of Mathematics, 318
Dynamics of Creation, The (Storr), 15
Econometric Society, 20
Nash’s fellowship in, 354–55
economics:
bargaining and, 88–91, 120, 129, 149–151, 360
see also game theory; Nobel Prize in economics
Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro, 88, 89
Ehrlich, Phillip, 287
Eilenberg, Samuel, 68
Einstein, Albert, 12, 13, 15, 19, 41, 46, 50, 63, 79, 84, 87, 118, 216, 271, 308, 380
adolescence of, 35
Davis supported by, 271
and general theory of relativity, 52, 70, 86, 231, 380
on God, 66
go played by, 75
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle critiqued by, 221
on intellectual isolation, 59
on Kaluza’s theory, 94
liberal views of, 14
Nash’s meeting with, 70–71, 94, 382
nuclear warning of, 56
recruited to IAS, 54–55
relativity papers of, 52, 70, 86
and special theory of relativity, 51–52, 70, 86
Swiss citizenship of, 272
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 110, 111, 140, 185, 217
elections of 1952, 140
electroshock, 293
Eliot, T. S., 98
El Salvador, 191
embedding, of Riemannian manifolds, 155–63, 203, 204, 218, 219, 345
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics, 297
entropy, 224
Epstein, Samuel, 254–55
Erds, Paul, 346
ergodic theorem, 81
Erlenmeyer-Kimling, Nikki, 188
Esau, 327
Esmiol, Pattison, 314–15, 319, 321
Estermann, Immanuel, 41
Euler, Leonhard, 230
Euripides, 94
exotic spheres, 203
Farinholt, Larkin, 280
Faulkner, James, 265
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 153, 154, 249, 281
Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 374, 376–78
Federer, Herbert, 161
Feldt, Kjell Olof, 368
Fellows, Benjamin Pierce, 135
Fermat’s Last Theorem, 203, 386
Fermat’s Theorem, 35
fiber bundles, 64
Fields, Kenneth, 345, 346, 351
Fields Medal, 20, 224, 236, 333, 369
description of, 225–26
1958, 234
1966, 279
selection process for, 225
Fine, Henry Burchard, 52–53
first strike, 121
Fisher, Eric, 361
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 49
Flatto, Leopold “Poldy,” 144, 159, 163
Flexner, Abraham, 54
Flood, Merrill, 119, 121–22, 150, 303
Floyd Ward dancing school, 33
Fogel, Robert, 363
Fortune, 104, 106, 108, 115, 116, 216, 217, 224
Foundations of Economic Theory (Samuelson), 86
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus (Shelley), 273
Fredga, Kerstin, 360, 370, 372
Freudian theory, 188, 250, 259–60, 351
Fuchs, Klaus, 110
Fuchsian functions, 93
Fuck Your Buddy, 102
Fukuda, Hiroshi, 75
Fulbright program, 236
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 116
Gale, David, 62, 64, 77, 78, 83, 100, 308–9
Nash equilibrium and, 95
Gallagher, Chicky, 193
Galmarino, Alberto, 240–41
games:
non-zero-sum, 87
two-person zero-sum, 14, 87, 95, 96, 115, 116, 119
“Games Against Nature” (Milnor), 149
Games and Decisions (Luce and Raiffa), 122
game theory, 56, 84–91, 101, 286
application of, 374–78
Econometric Society and, 354
MIT seminar on, 319
and Nash’s graduate studies, 65, 68, 77, 86–87, 90–91, 96, 100, 132
Nash’s introduction to, 45
in New Palgrave, 20
1961 conference on, 296–97
1964 conference on, 313
in Nobel deliberations, 357, 360–73
origins of, 13–14
RAND and, 104–5, 108, 111, 115–22, 149–51
Tucker and, 64–65, 77, 83, 90, 91, 100, 118, 119, 362
von Neumann’s role in, 13–14, 81, 83–87, 88, 90, 91, 92, 93–94, 95, 96–97, 98, 100, 111, 115, 116, 117–18, 119, 128, 149, 150, 362, 363
see also bargaining; min-max theorem; Nash equilibrium
Gangolli, Ramesh, 240–41
Garabedian, Paul, 219–20
Garber, Robert, 292, 293, 294, 305, 307, 310
Garsia, Adriano, 237, 257, 258
Garson, Greer, 36
Gauss, Carl Friedrich, 35, 69, 128, 141, 230
Gauss’s proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra, 67
Gauthier, Jacqueline, 260, 261
General Electric, 27
general theory of relativity, 52, 70, 86, 231, 380
geniuses:
clusters of, 94
schizophrenia and, 19
geometry:
algebraic, 96
continuous, 81
differential, 203
and Nash’s graduate studies, 68
non-Euclidean, 231
see also Riemannian manifolds
Germany, East, 281
Gibbon, Edward, 58
Gibbs, Willard, 51
Gide, André, 310–11
Gillespie, Charles, 337
Girschick, Abraham, 117
Gleason, Andrew, 146
Gleason, Jackie, 193
go, 75, 76, 100, 142, 326, 343
Gödel, Kurt, 50, 54, 59, 70, 84, 216, 236, 355
Goodwin, Ruth, 243–44
Goldin, Claudia, 338
Goldman, Oscar, 252
Goldschmidt, Hubert, 298
Goldstine, Hermann, 82
Goodman, Leo, 210
Gordon, Julie, 355
Grant, Mrs. Austin, 172
Grothendieck, Alexandre, 279, 298, 311, 312, 334
Guggenheim Foundation, 236
Gunderson, John G., 16
Haber, Seymour, 146
Hahn, Otto, 56
Halmos, Paul, 12, 80, 155, 159
Hardy, G. H., 61, 79, 130, 137, 228, 230
Harish-Chandra, 286
Harsanyi, John C., 98, 354, 362, 374
at 1961 conference, 297
Nobel deliberations on, 363, 364, 371, 373
Harvard University, 45, 46, 51, 55, 60, 134–135, 136, 137, 144, 146, 235
Haslam, John, 275
Hayek, Friedrich von, 367
Heifetz, Jascha, 246
Heilbroner, Robert, 89
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, 221
Herter, Christian A., 278, 279
see also “Nash”
Hilbert, David, 52, 53, 81, 157
Hilbert’s Fifth Problem, 81, 146
Hilbert spaces, 44
Hiroshima bombing (1945), 195
Hitch, Charles, 122
Hitler, Adolf, 84
Hoffman, Abbie, 271
Hoffman, Alan, 339
homotopy chains, 69
Hörmander, Lars, 216, 217, 219, 226–27, 232, 264, 280, 300, 301
Nobel deliberations and, 365, 366
Hoselitz, Bert, 90–91
Houghton, Amory, 279
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 152, 187
Howard, Paul, 222
Hurwicz, Leo, 85
hydrogen bomb, 81, 93, 109, 110
hyperbolic equations, see nonlinear partial differential equations
I Am a Genius (Wiener), 136
I Am a Mathematician (Wiener), 136
IAS, see Institute for Advanced Study
IBM, 82
ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles), 106, 110
If, 142
IHES (Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques), 279, 280, 298, 311
Île de France, 233
Immigration Act (1941), 271–72
implicit-function theorems, 160, 222, 243
impossibility theorem, 108
Ingham, Albert E., 229, 232, 238
“Insanity Bit, The” (Krim), 291
Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES), 279, 280, 298, 311
Institute for Advanced Study (IAS):
activities at, 63
creation of, 54–55
Gödel’s professorship at, 355
Lefschetz on, 59
Nash at, 202, 208, 215–16, 220–21, 236
Nash at, after illness, 296–97, 303, 308–309, 311
insulin coma therapy, 291–94, 299, 306, 329, 353
intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), 106, 110
International Congress of Mathematicians:
1950, 129
1958, 233
International Mathematical Union, 162
see also Fields Medal
Isbell, John, 205
Jacob, 327
Jacobson, Carl-Olof, 356–57, 370, 371–72, 373
“Jeep” problem, 145–46
Jeffries, Steve, 186
John XXIII, Pope, 276
John Alden Society, 33
John Bates Clark medal for economics, 369
Johnniac, 109
John von Neumann Theory Prize, 338–39, 354
Jung, Carl, 94
Kafka, Franz, 269, 273, 278, 327
Kahne, Merton J., 254, 258, 259
Kaiser Friedrich Institute, 56
Kakutani, Shizuo, 362
Kaluza, Theodor F. E., 94
Kant, Immanuel, 15
Karlin, Sam, 117
Kaysen, Carl, 116
Keefe, Richard, 342
Kennedy, John F., 280
Keynes, John Maynard, 14
Keynesian economics, 85
Khrushchev, Nikita, 278, 280, 332
Kinsey, Alfred, 181
Kirchner, Herman, 37
Nash’s lecture arranged by, 380
Kiselman, Ola, 366
Klein bottles, 157–58
Köchel, Ludwig Alois Ferdinand von, 281
Kohn, Anna Rosa, 322
Kohn, Joseph, 134, 140, 157, 313, 314, 319, 320, 322
Nash as concern of, 338
Kraepelin, Emil, 18
Kreisel, Georg, 284
Kreps, David, 362
Kriegspiel, 75–76, 100, 101, 112, 285
Krim, Seymour, 291
Kubrick, Stanley, 80
Kuhn, Estelle, 275, 379, 380, 384
Kuhn, Harold, 64, 243, 339, 351, 381, 385, 386, 388
Carrier Clinic visit of, 313
description of, 21
in Econometric Society, 354
honeymoon of, 62
on invention of Hex, 78
in Korean War, 125
on Nash’s need for recognition, 44
on Nash’s thesis, 95–96
Nash told of Nobel by, 21–22
at Nobel ceremonies, 275, 379, 380
Nobel committee’s request to, 363
Nobel deliberations and, 365, 367
on von Neumann, 79
Kunzig, Robert L., 152
Kuranishi, Masatake, 162
Ladyshenskaya, Olga, 234
Larde, Eloi Martin, 191
Larde, Florentin, 191
Larde, Jorge, 191
Larde, Muyu, 282
Larde (Danskin), Odette, see Danskin, Odette Larde
Larde, Rolando, 191
Larde Arthes, Carlos (father-in-law), 191–192, 193, 194, 201
illness and death of, 192, 296, 301
Larde Harrison, Alicia (mother-in-law), see Lopez-Harrison de Larde, Alicia
Lasker, 180
Lax, Anneli, 216
Lax, Peter, 216, 217, 218, 226, 246
Leader, Elvira, 284
Lefschetz, Solomon, 46, 47, 51, 58, 63, 64, 69, 71, 93, 95, 96, 130, 329
anti-Semitism and, 58
background of, 58–59
at IAS parties, 215
McCarthyism and, 153
Nash’s job search and, 129, 132
new students welcomed by, 58–59
Legendre, Adrien Marie, 230
Legg, Charlie (brother-in-law), 209, 212, 302, 323, 331
Legg, Martha Nash (sister), 39, 170, 209, 283, 387
Alicia Nash’s letter to, 340
Esmiol contacted by, 321
on John Nash, Sr., 26
Levinson’s letter to, 322
Mele contacted by, 310
Nash committed to DeJarnette by, 331
Nash’s 1962 European trip and, 301
on Nash’s childhood, 32–33
and Nash’s commitment to Carrier, 304, 306, 307–8
on Nash’s desire to leave MIT, 235
Nash’s divorce and, 302
Nash’s letters to, 169, 181, 279, 282, 301, 310, 314, 316–17, 318, 319–20
Nash’s 1959–60 European stay and, 272, 279, 282
Nash’s present relationship with, 383
Nash’s Roanoke years and, 323, 330
Nash’s Trenton State hospitalization and, 287, 288, 290, 291
at Nash’s wedding, 212
and onset of Nash’s schizophrenia, 249, 251
sanctuary search revealed to, 302
on trip to California, 147–48
World War II and, 35–36
Lemke, Carl, 339
Leonard, Robert, 52, 84, 86, 94, 363
Leray, Jean, 236, 285, 298, 300
Levinson, Norman, 135, 143, 153, 155, 200, 320
background of, 137–38
Nash’s Brandeis post supported by, 313, 314
Nash’s McLean commitment and, 254, 257
on Nash’s parsimony, 233
Nash’s professorship and, 162–63
Nash’s resignation and, 265
and onset of Nash’s schizophrenia, 243, 244
Riemann Hypothesis and, 230
Riemannian manifolds and, 158, 160, 161, 163
Levinson, Zipporah “Fagi,” 136, 137, 144, 172, 264, 265, 322
on Alicia Nash, 223
Alicia Nash aided by, 262
John Charles Nash’s birth and, 263–64
Nash monitored by, 320
Nash’s belongings moved by, 322
Nash’s McLean commitment and, 255, 259, 260
sublet arranged by, 319
Lewin, Roger, 335
Lewis, John L., 28
Lewy, Hans, 221
Lide, David, 41
Life, game of, 158
Lincoln Laboratory, 133
Littlewood, J. E., 130
Locke, John, 94
Löfgren, Karl-Gustaf, 359–60, 364
logic, 65
Lopez-Harrison de Larde, Alicia (mother-in-law), 191, 192, 194, 201, 342
European trip of, 276–77, 279, 280
John Charles Nash in care of, 277, 283, 287, 296, 309, 341
John Charles Nash’s mental problems and, 343, 344
United States left by, 346
Louthan, John, 38–39
Lowell, Robert, 253, 255, 256–57, 259, 260
Lucas, Robert, 371
McAfee, Preston, 377
McCarthy, Joseph, 100, 110, 135, 184
McCarthyism, 100, 110, 135, 137, 152–54, 185, 187
McCormick, Mrs., 195
McDonald, John, 116
McKinsey, J. C. C., 117, 185, 188, 189
McLean Hospital, 253–61
description of, 255
optimism at, 259
treatment philosophy of, 259
Mad Hatter’s Tea, 264
Magee, Harold, 291
Mäler, Karl-Göran, 358, 362, 364, 367, 369, 370–71, 372
Malgrange, Bernard, 300
Manganaro, Jim, 380
Manhattan Project, 56, 81, 107, 110, 153, 193
MANIAC, 82
manic depressive illness (bipolar disorder), 18, 258, 318–19
manifolds, algebraic, 123–24, 128–32
manifolds, Riemannian, embedding of, 155–63, 203, 204, 218, 219, 345
Mao Tse-Tung, 332
Marshall, Alfred, 89
Martha Washington College, 27
Martin, Emma (grandmother), 27, 29
Martin, James Everett (grandfather), 27
Martin, Lucy, 243
Martin, Margaret Virginia (mother), see Nash, Margaret Virginia Martin
Martin, William Ted, 132, 135, 137, 153, 154, 233
Michigan position arranged by, 303
Nash’s McLean commitment and, 254
and Nash’s professorship, 155
Nash’s resignation and, 265
Nash’s tenure and, 224, 244, 249, 250
and onset of Nash’s schizophrenia, 243, 244, 250
senior seminar arranged by, 319
Martinez, Maximiliano Hernandez, 191
Marx, Karl, 88
Marymount School, 192–94
Mary Nash College for Women, 26
Maskin, Eric, 362
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 55, 132–46, 152–63
Alicia Larde accepted to, 194
description of, 133
game theory seminar at, 319
McCarthyism at, 153
Nash’s resignation from, 265
Nash’s tenure hopes at, 224, 244, 249, 250
Nash’s unhappiness at, 235
Nash’s visiting position at, 309
Matewan, 28
Mathematical Intelligencer, The, 77, 78
Mathematician’s Apology, The (Hardy), 228
mathematics:
competition in, 228–29
Hilbert program in, 52
Mathematische Grundlagen der Quantenmechanik (von Neumann), 45, 81
Mattson, John Otto, 184
Mattuck, Arthur, 167–68, 177, 178, 180, 182, 199, 201, 223, 263, 316, 317, 387
on Forrester, 204
John Stier and, 344
Nash’s illness and, 262
Nash’s McLean commitment and, 256, 258
Meder, Albert E., Jr., 303
Meitner, Lise, 56
Mele, Howard S., 307–8, 310, 312–13
Men of Mathematics (Bell), 34–35, 230–31
“Metamorphosis, The” (Kafka), 278
meteorology, 81
Michigan, University of, 45, 149, 303–4
Milnor, John, 101, 132, 170, 234, 296, 308–9, 312, 313
Alicia Nash’s driving lessons from, 284
at International Mathematical Congress, 301
knotted curves paper of, 72
on Nash’s 1960s work, 309
on Nash’s speculative questions, 68–69
one-year Princeton post arranged by, 309–10, 311
on Princeton student life, 64
on trip to California, 147–48
min-max theorem, 83, 86, 95, 96
Minsky, Gloria, 316
Minsky, Marvin L., 95, 143, 145, 200, 208, 223, 316, 387
MIT, see Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Möbius strip, 66
Mood, Alexander, 112, 113–14, 187
Moore, John Coleman, 198, 269, 341–42, 344
C. L. E. Moore instructorships, 132, 135, 139, 142, 157, 160, 162
Morawetz, Cathleen Synge, 216, 217, 246, 281–82
Morgenstern, Oskar, 81, 83, 85, 87, 88, 90, 91, 94, 97, 102, 105, 149, 284, 308–9, 363
background of, 84
game-theory conference organized by, 296–97
Nash’s potential job with, 284–85, 286
Moser, Gertrude, 222, 239, 251, 257, 262
Moser, Jürgen, 216, 223, 224, 243, 257, 321–22
on Fields deliberations, 226
funds raised by, 303
Nash paper refereed by, 318
Nash’s respect for, 222
New Year’s Eve party of, 239–40
Riemannian manifolds and, 158, 159, 161, 162
Moskovitz, David, 44
Motchane, Leon, 298
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 281
Muse, Leonard, 331
Nagel, Bengt, 368
Nalebuff, Barry, 97
Nash, Alexander Quincy (grandfather), 26
Nash, Alicia Larde (wife), 190–202, 298, 299, 301, 314, 322, 388
accepted at MIT, 194
assessments of Nash’s relationship with, 223
attracted to Nash, 196–98
background and childhood of, 191–94
breakdown of marriage of, 296
Carrier commitment and, 304, 306
Cohen and, 237
early married life of, 222–23
Eleanor Stier’s meeting with, 201–2
electroshock eschewed by, 306
employment problems of, 341–43
European trip of, 233–34
informed of Nash’s Nobel, 371
Italy trip of, 276
John Charles Nash’s graduate studies encouraged by, 346
John Charles Nash’s mental problems and, 343, 344
Moore’s relationship with, 341
Nash committed to McLean by, 253–61
Nash offered housing by, 340
Nash’s 1962 European trip and, 298, 301
in Nash’s class, 196–97.
Nash’s contemplation of marriage with, 210–12
Nash’s courtship with, 199–202
Nash’s divorce threat against, 262
Nash’s Geneva stay and, 273, 278, 279
on Nash’s remission, 349
Nash’s Trenton State hospitalization and, 287, 288, 290, 291, 294
Nash’s wedding to, 212
at New Jersey Transit, 346
at New Year’s party, 240
1959–60 European stay of, 265–82
Nobel Prize and, 383
and onset of Nash’s schizophrenia, 242, 245, 248–52
potential reconciliation with, 308, 309, 310, 313, 316, 319
pregnancy of, 235, 248, 251, 263–64
renewal of marriage of, 385–86
on return from Europe, 283, 284, 287
sex discrimination suit filed by, 342–43
son of, see Nash, John Charles Martin
Virginia Nash introduced to, 211
von Neumann prize and, 339
wedding of, 212
Nash, Jesse (uncle), 26
Nash, John Charles Martin (son), 255, 261, 263–64, 266, 283, 301, 322, 326, 342
Alicia Lopez-Harrison’s care of, 277, 283, 287, 296, 309, 341
Boston visited by, 345
brought to Europe, 276–77, 279, 280
computer seen as therapeutic for, 384, 385
custody of, 303
fundamentalism of, 343
John Stier’s first meeting with, 344
math studies of, 345–46
medication refused by, 344, 384
mental problems of, 343–44, 351, 383–385
Nash’s relationship with, 380, 383–85, 388
Nash’s separations from, 308, 314, 316
Nobel Prize and, 383
at Trenton State Hospital, 383
von Neumann prize and, 339
Nash, John F., Jr.
alien races and, 13, 241–42, 243, 275
assessment of schizophrenia diagnosis for, 351–53
assessment of work of, 11–12
authority disdained by, 12
autobiographical essay of, 32, 34, 44, 46, 91, 129, 157, 159, 224–25, 295, 354
birth of, 30
blackboard messages left by, 332–34
bombmaking by, 37
at Brandeis, 314–22
at Carrier Clinic, 304, 305–8, 312–13
chemistry studied bv. 41
citizenship renunciation attempted by, 271–72
classes avoided by, 68
computers admired by, 12
computer work of, 336–37, 349, 350, 384
diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, 258–59
dismissed from RAND, 184–89
divorce considered by, 257, 262
draft avoided by, 123–27
drug treatments of, 16–17
earliest memories of, 25
early education of, 31, 34, 38–39
early mathematical talent of, 34
East Germany stay of, 281
engineering studied by, 39, 40, 41
faculty position sought by, 123
fellow students questioned by, 72
French studies of, 297–98
games invented by, 75, 76–78, 102
generals passed by, 92–93
graduate studies of, 45–47, 49, 58–98
handedness of, 31
hospitalization feared by, 325, 330, 340
indecent exposure charge against, 184–189, 210
initial recovery of, 295
insulin coma therapy of, 291–94, 299, 306, 329, 353
intellectual independence sought by, 68, 71
as introverted child, 30–31
at McLean Hospital, 253–61
marriage of, see Nash, Alicia Larde
mathematics chosen by, 42
1959–60 European stay of, 265–82
1962 European trip of, 298
1964 European trip of, 311–12
1967 West Coast trip of, 320–22
Nobel prize announced to, 22
onset of schizophrenia in, 11, 16, 18–19, 221, 238, 240–52
passport destroyed or discarded by, 276
physical description of, 67, 113
pranks played by, 37, 101, 102, 114, 156
professorship gained by, 155, 156, 162–163
psychotherapy of, 259
Putnam award and, 43–44
reading avoided by, 68
refugee status sought by, 273, 274–80, 302
remission of, 20, 349–55, 381–82
Roanoke years of, 323–31
science experiments of, 32
science fiction as interest of, 12
security clearance of, 110
Shapley’s friendship with, 99–103
shock treatments and, 16–17, 232, 250, 304
single economics course of, 90–91
sociability encouraged in, 33
sons of, see Nash, John Charles Martin; Stier, John David
stock market as interest of, 233, 236, 350
summer jobs of, 33
teaching by, 139–41, 163, 235, 240–41
at Trenton State Hospital, 287, 288–94, 302, 306, 344
vegetarianism of, 307
violence of, 73
von Neumann prize awarded to, 338–39, 354
whistling of, 66, 69, 113, 114, 141–42, 163
Nash, John F., Sr. (father), 25–34, 123
background and childhood of, 26
death of, 209
health problems of, 208–9
Japanese invasion feared by, 35–36
New York trip of, 208–9
West Point suggested by, 39
Nash, Margaret Virginia Martin (mother), 25–34, 123, 251, 264
Alicia Larde introduced to, 211
Carrier commitment and, 304, 306, 307–308
John Nash, Sr.’s death and, 209–10
John Stier and, 206, 208, 209, 210
Nash’s divorce and, 302
Nash’s education fostered by, 31, 38
Nash’s investments for, 233, 236
Nash’s letters to, 272, 276, 279, 301, 310, 312, 314, 319–20
Nash’s McLean commitment and, 255, 260
Nash’s 1959–60 European stay and, 272, 276, 279
Nash’s 1962 European trip and, 301
Nash’s 1964 European trip and, 312
Nash’s stay with, 323–30
Nash’s Trenton State hospitalization and, 287, 288, 290, 291
New York trip of, 208
and onset of Nash’s schizophrenia, 249, 251
and potential Michigan position, 303
sociability encouraged by, 33
Nash, Martha (sister), see Legg, Martha Nash
Nash, Martha Smith (grandmother), 26
Nash, Richard (cousin), 293, 320–21
Mary Nash College for Women, 26
Nash equilibrium, 115, 118, 119, 329, 339, 361–62, 375
assessment of, 96–98
dominant vs. dominated strategies in, 97
elaboration of, 93–96
see also Nobel Prize in economics of 1994
Nash-Moser theorem, 159
Nathanson, Melvyn, 346
National Academy of Sciences, 95, 115, 131
National Science Foundation (NSF), 107, 236, 296, 313, 314
Navier-Stokes equations, 297
Navy, U.S., 82, 83, 125, 126, 134, 135
negotiation, in game theory, 120
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 278
Nelson, Ed, 284, 286, 296, 300
Nerval, Gerard de, 228
Neuwirth, Jerome, 144, 182, 231
New Jersey Transit, 346
Newman, Donald “D.J.,” 12, 139, 143, 144–45, 146, 169, 180, 200, 237, 240
on Bricker and Nash, 180
on Nash, 159
Nash’s McLean commitment and, 257–258
and onset of Nash’s schizophrenia, 243, 246
Newman, Herta, 143, 181, 196, 200
Newman, Peter, 329
Newton, Isaac, 12, 15, 17, 35, 51, 52, 56, 85, 94
New York Times, 70, 86, 100, 236, 241–42, 374
New York University, see Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New Zealand, 377
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 12, 139, 235
Nilges, Edward G., 350
Nimitz, Nancy, 185
Nirenberg, Louis, 203, 216, 218–19, 243, 301
Nobel Prize in economics, 55, 107
ad hoc committee on future of, 372–73
criteria for, 358
1972, 108
1986, 364
1991, 364
1993, 363
proposed abolition of, 368
reform of, 369
selection process for, 358–60
unpopularity of, 368
Nobel Prize in economics of 1994, 150, 224, 275, 297
delayed press conference about, 356–57
dinner in celebration of, 77
Nash informed of, 22, 371, 373
voting for, 370–72
Nobel Prize in literature, 357
Nobel Prize in peace, 357
Nobel Prize in physics:
1943, 41
1963, 53
nonexpanding universe, 380, 382
nonlinear partial differential equations, 217–20, 223–24, 226, 231, 234, 243, 247, 300, 318
non-zero-sum games, 87
Norfolk & Western Railroad, 28, 104, 323
North Carolina, University of, 148
NSF (National Science Foundation), 107, 236, 296, 313, 314
nuclear weapons, 56–57
game theory and, 119
hydrogen bomb, 81, 93, 109, 110
Manhattan Project and, 56, 81, 107, 110, 153, 193
RAND and, 104–5, 106, 109, 119, 121
number theory, 21, 35, 45, 56, 346
see also Riemann Hypothesis
Office of Naval Research (ONR), 123, 124, 125, 126, 219, 313, 314
Office of the Chief of Ordnance, 56
Ohlin, Bertil, 359
ONR (Office of Naval Research), 123, 124, 125, 126, 219, 313, 314
Operation Match, 319
operations research, 56
Oppenheimer, Robert, 19, 50, 53, 79, 193
hydrogen bomb and, 81, 93, 109
on IAS, 215
Nash’s argument with, 220–21
Nash’s IAS appointments and, 296, 308, 311
on Nash’s sanity, 294
Oskar II, king of Sweden and Norway, 129
Ostrowski, Alexander, 303
Otis, William, 305
Pais, Abraham, 221
Palais, Richard, 231–32, 313, 317, 319, 321
parabolic equations, see nonlinear partial differential equations
Parker, Charlie, 156
Parmet, Belle, 307
partial differential equations, 137–38
nonlinear, 217–20, 223–24, 226, 231, 234, 243, 247, 300, 318
Partial Differential Relations (Gromov), 158
Patri, Angelo, 33
Personality of Criminals, The (Stearns), 261
Persson, Torsten, 362, 364, 367
Pitts, Walter, 134
Plato, 94
Poincaré, Jules Henri, 12, 45, 93, 129
Polya, George, 230
Portugal, 290
Post, Emil, 180
Poundstone, William, 76, 106, 119
“Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship,” 106
Princeton, N.J.
history of, 49
as mathematics capital, 50–51
Princeton University, 45
description of, 50
dinner at, 61–62
graduate housing at, 61–62
history of, 51
student life at, 61–62
Princeton University mathematics department
games played at, 75–78
girls absent from, 62
grades as fiction at, 60
Nash offered one-year post at, 309–10, 311, 312
Nash’s fellowship to, 46
Nash’s graduate work at, 45–47, 49, 58–98
philosophy of education at, 60–61
students of, 64–65
Principia (Newton), 85
Prisoner’s Dilemma, 118–19, 150
Prisoners Dilemma (Poundstone), 76
Private Terror/Public Places (Glass), 335
“Problème de Cauchy Pour les Equations Differentielles d’une Fluide Générale, Le” (Nash), 297
Prospect High School, 192
William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition, 43–44, 72, 144
Pythagoras, 94
Pythagoras’ Trousers (Wertheim), 334
quantum theory, 45, 70, 81, 138, 202, 220–221, 222–23, 236
Queen Mary, 265, 269, 282, 311–12
Rademacher, Hans, 246
Radio Corporation of America (RCA), 283, 341
Raiffa, Howard, 122
Ramanujan, Srinivasa, 12, 45, 60–61
RAND Corporation, 72, 100, 103, 104–23, 124, 147–51, 321, 363
game theory and, 104–5, 108, 111, 115–122, 149–51
location of, 108
Nash’s dismissal from, 184–89
Nobel deliberations and, 366
practical jokes at, 111
“RAND Hymn, The” (Reynolds), 104
Randol, Burton, 286
Rappaport, Anatole, 303
rational conflict and cooperation, theory of, 13
Raymond, Sister, 193–94
RCA (Radio Corporation of America), 283, 341
Reboul, Mark, 332
Red Cross, 191
Reed-Solomon code, 144
Reidemeister group, 69
general theory of, 52, 70, 86, 380
special theory of, 51–52, 70, 86, 231
Reynolds, Malvina, 104
Ricardo, David, 88
Richardson, Gillian, 297
Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard, 12, 129, 157, 230
Riemann Hypothesis, 19, 20, 138, 229–32, 236, 238, 241, 243, 277
Nash’s presentations on, 245–46, 251
Riemannian manifolds, embedding of, 155–63, 203, 204, 218, 219, 345
Risperadol, 384
Robinson, Julia, 38
Rockefeller, Nelson, 336
Rockefeller Foundation, 53, 84
Rogers, Adrienne, 223
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 56
Rose, Wickliffe, 53
Rota, Gian-Carlo, 59, 162, 220, 223, 236
Nash’s McLean commitment and, 257
and onset of Nash’s schizophrenia, 241, 251
Rota, Terry, 223
Roth, Klaus F., 226
Rothschild, Michael, 374
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 273
Royal Swedish Academy of Arts and Letters, 357
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 356–373
secrecy of, 357
see also Nobel Prize in economics
Rubinstein, Ariel, 354–55, 360, 362
Rudolf, Archduke, 191
Russell, Bertrand, 14, 35, 118
Russell, Henry Norris, 51
Russell, Lindsay, 172
Rutgers University, 346
Sabin, Betty, 195
SAC (Strategic Air Command), 121
Sacco, Nicola, 261
Sackel, Manfred, 293
St. Paul’s church, 302
Salazar, Antonio de Oliveira, 290
Samuelson, Paul A., 55, 86, 265, 375
on Nash’s parsimony, 232–33
Nobel awarded to, 55, 358, 360
Santa Monica Evening Outlook, 108, 184, 187
Sarnak, Peter, 349
Sayles, John, 28
Schelling, Thomas C., 111, 115–16, 122
in Nobel deliberations, 363, 364
achievement impaired by, 318–19
creativity and, 15–16
as episodic illness, 345
“extreme contrariness” in, 271
genius and, 19
Glass on, 278
Haslam’s description of, 275
insensitivity to pain in, 328–29
negative symptoms of, 328, 352
studies on remission in, 351–53
see also Nash, John Charles Martin; Nash, John F., Jr.
Schläfli, Ludwig, 157
Schneider, Mark, 333
Schwartz, Jacob, 159–60, 162, 231
Scott, T. H., 124
Segal, Irving E., 103
Selberg, Atle, 229, 230, 232, 241, 245, 296, 297, 312
IAS membership arranged by, 308
visiting positions sought through, 309
Selten, Reinhard, 98, 354, 362, 374
at 1961 conference, 297
Nobel deliberations on, 363, 364, 371, 373
Serling, Rod, 301
Serre, Jean-Pierre, 312
set theory, axiomatization of, 81
Shapiro, Harold N., 147, 245, 367
Shapley, Lloyd S., 39, 99–103, 112, 113, 117, 119, 120, 122, 152, 208, 321, 388
in Econometric Society, 354
Nash’s arrest and, 187
on Nash’s illness, 299–300
in Nobel deliberations, 363, 364
remission noted by, 350
von Neumann prize arranged by, 338–339, 354
Sheldon, Elizabeth, 27–28
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 273
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 269
Sherman, Agnes, 284
Sherman, Michael, 284
Sherman Institute, 26
Shubik, Martin, 63, 101, 102, 120, 208, 286
in Econometric Society, 354, 355
Nobel deliberations and, 366
Siegel, Carl Ludwig, 226
Siegel, Robert, 42
Singer, Isadore M., 142, 144–45, 162, 203
Nash’s McLean commitment and, 260
singularities, canonical resolution of, 318
Slater, J. C., 222–23
Sloan Fellowships, 202, 236, 280
Smith, Adam, 15, 88, 119, 151, 374–75
Smith (Nash), Martha (grandmother), 26
Social Democratic Party (Sweden), 359, 364, 366
Sohlman, Michael, 357
“So Long, Sucker,” 102
Sophocles, 94
Soviet Union, 109, 110, 118, 119, 121
special theory of relativity, 51–52, 70, 86
Spencer, Donald, 93, 129–30, 131, 132, 141, 285, 291, 295
Carrier Clinic visits of, 307
description of, 130
IAS appointment obtained through, 296
Michigan position arranged by, 303, 304
Moore visited by, 341
Stahl, Ingolf, 362
Stanton, Alfred H., 259
Starr, Norton, 344
Steenrod, Norman, 64, 68, 69, 92, 93, 96, 129, 131, 137, 204, 229
Forrester and, 204
Kriegspiel played by, 76
Nash defended by, 73
Nash’s job search and, 132
as sounding board for Nash, 71–72
Stein, Eli, 224, 229, 231, 232, 233, 237
Stern, Otto, 41
Sternberg, Shlomo, 216
Stevenson, Adlai, 140
Stier, Eleanor, 172–79, 199, 201, 208, 296, 327–28
Alicia Larde’s meeting with, 201–2
background of, 173
Bricker and, 177, 178, 181, 182, 206–7
John Charles Nash’s stay with, 345
Nash confronted by, 201
Nash’s parents and, 206, 208, 209, 210
Nash’s recent meeting with, 387
Nash’s renewed contact with, 315–16
Nash’s support of, 207, 282, 330–31
pregnancy of, 175–76
support demanded by, 206–7
Stier, John David (son), 176–79, 201, 206–210, 282, 321, 326
brief reconciliation with, 344, 345
college plans of, 344
John Charles Nash’s first meeting with, 344
John Charles Nash’s stay with, 345
recent reconciliation with, 386–87
renewed contact with, 315–16
Stiglitz, Joseph, 375
Stirling’s formula, 350
Stone, Marshall, 55
Strategic Air Command (SAC), 121
Stratton, Julius, 244
Struik, Dirk, 152
Stuyvesant High School, 142, 237
Suez crisis, 217
Sullivan, Harry Stack, 259
Summers, Lawrence, 375
surreal numbers, 158
Surviving Schizophrenia (Torrey), 324
Synge, Hutchie, 281–82
Synge, John L., 41, 44, 46, 217, 281–282
Synge, John Millington, 41
Szasz, Thomas, 305
Szilard, Leo, 56
Tate, Karin, see Artin, Karin (Tate)
Teller, Edward, 193
tensor calculus, 380
Texas Agricultural & Mechanical University, 26–27
Théorie des Fonctions (Borel), 81
Théorie des Nombres (Legendre), 230
Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, The (von Neumann and Morgenstern), 81, 85, 86, 87, 88, 90, 94, 96–97, 116, 363
Thinking Strategically (Dixit and Nalebuff), 97, 375
This Side of Paradise (Fitzgerald), 49
Thorn, René, 226
Thompson, F. B., 117
Thompson, John, 236
Thorazine, 250, 258, 260, 306, 307
Thorson, Ervin, 170–71, 174, 204
Thurmer family, 281
Time, 32
Tobin, James, 360
Tobin, Joseph, 291
see also manifolds, algebraic
Torrey, E. Fuller, 324
Trenton State Hospital, 287, 288–94, 302, 306, 344, 383
Trial, The (Kafka), 327
Trotter, Hale, 334, 337, 338, 350, 384
Troutman, Nelda, 170
Truesdell, Charlotte, 48
Truesdell, Clifford Ambrose, 47
Truman, Harry S., 49, 62, 109, 123, 185
Tucker, Albert, 69, 72, 75, 76, 137, 272, 285–86, 291, 312, 338
Alicia Nash’s pregnancy announced to, 235
Carnegie mathematics impressive to, 42
Carrier Clinic visits of, 307
description of, 95
game theory and, 64–65, 77, 83, 90, 91, 100, 118, 119, 362
Michigan position arranged by, 303
Nash’s draft deferment and, 125, 202
Nash’s job search and, 132
ONR grant of, 126
on Shapley, 103
as straitlaced, 64
turbulence, 218–19
Turing, Alan, 56, 107, 188, 189
Tversky, Amos, 373
Twilight Zone, 301
“Two Person Cooperative Games” (Nash), 120
two-person zero-sum games, 14, 87, 95, 96, 115, 116, 119
“Ueber die Anzahl der primzahlen unter einer gegebenen Grosse” (Riemann), 230
Ulam, Stanislaw, 217
unified field theory, 70
United Mine Workers (UMW), 28
United Nations High Commission for Refugees, 274
universe, nonexpanding, 380, 382
Valleius, 94
Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 261
Vasquez, Al, 240, 244–45, 257, 264, 299, 314
on Nash’s improvement, 317
Nash’s 1959–60 European stay and, 281, 282
Vaught, Robert, 205
Veblen, May, 49
Veblen, Oswald, 49, 50, 53, 54, 56
Villard, Henry S., 278
Viner, Jacob, 86
Voltaire, 273
von Neumann, John, 12, 19, 28, 45, 46, 50, 52, 59, 63, 74, 215, 216, 270
background of, 81
death of, 217
on decline of mathematical powers, 228
description of, 79–82
game theory and, 13–14, 81, 83–87, 88, 90, 91, 92, 93–94, 95, 96–97, 98, 100, 111, 115, 116, 117–18, 119, 128, 149, 150, 362, 363
hydrogen bomb and, 81, 93, 109, 110
Kriegspiel played by, 76
Manhattan Project and, 81, 107
Nash’s meeting with, 93–94
at RAND, 105, 106, 109, 111, 117–18, 122
recruited to Princeton, 53–54
on Shapley, 100
John von Neumann Theory Prize, 338–39, 354
Wachtman, Jack, 43
Waggoner, Ray, 303
Walker, Nelson, 37
Wallace, A. D., 69
Wallace, Henry, 62
Wallenberg family, 368
Walter, John, 205
Wan, Henry, 265
Warhol, Andy, 41
Warsh, David, 366
Washington, University of, 203–5
Martha Washington College, 27
Washnitzer, Gerard, 64
Way Ministry, 343
Weibull, Jörgen, 356, 360–61, 362, 363
Nobel deliberations and, 365, 366
Weil, Andre, 236
Weinberger, Hans, 42, 43, 44–45
Weinstein, Alexander, 41
Weissblum, Walter, 144
Wertheim, Margaret, 334
West, Andrew, 61
Westinghouse, 41
West Virginia University, 27
Weyl, Hermann, 52, 53, 54–55, 74, 157
Whitehead, George, 135, 141, 162, 163, 252
Moore visited by, 341
Whitehead, Kay, 252
Whiteman, Paul, 193
White Oak naval research project, 47
Whitney, Hassler, 55, 203, 266, 282
Wiener, Norbert, 12, 16, 28, 55, 129, 134, 137, 142, 202, 218, 235, 307
description of, 135–36
Nash’s esteem for, 145, 146, 200
Nash’s McLean commitment and, 260
Nash’s 1959–60 European stay and, 277
Nash’s professorship and, 162–63
Wiener, Theo, 136
Wilczek, Frank, 333
Wilder, Raymond, 69
Wilks, Sam, 56
William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition, 43–44, 72, 144
Williams, John, 38–39, 83, 111, 112, 113, 114, 116–17, 119, 124, 170
Nash’s dismissal and, 185–86, 187, 188
Will to Power, The (Nietzsche), 139
Wilson, James Q., 261
Wilson, Woodrow, 51, 52–53, 61
Winters, Robert, 291, 303, 304
Wirtschaftsprognose (Morgenstern), 84
Wohlstetter, Al, 121
Wordsworth, William, 5, 11, 25
World Citizen Registry, 271
World Federalists, 271
Worldly Philosophers, The (Heilbroner), 89
World War I, 27
World War II, 35–36, 39, 107, 124, 193
Zariski, Oscar, 318
zero-sum two-person games, 14, 87, 95, 96, 115, 116, 119
Zeuthen, Dane F., 89
Zur Theorie der Gesellschaftspiele (von Neumann), 84
Zyprexa, 384