John Nash was recognised by his colleagues as a genius in 1948 when he was accepted into Princeton University's graduate programme at the age of 20. A year later he found a mathematical way for hostile parties to settle arguments to mutual advantage. Known as the Nash equilibrium, his major contribution to mathematics remains as useful today - as shown by recent auctions of bandwidth to mobile phone companies - as it was in cold war politics. It gained him a Nobel prize for economics in 1994. He now researches problems in cosmology and quantum theory
An obvious question to kick off with: is there a connection between madness and genius?
continued at Interview: Return of a "beautiful mind"...
Posted by Divinity at December 17, 2004 02:50 PM