The Story of John Nash: From Genius to Madness and Back

John Nash lost his mind and then miraculously found it again. Try https://brilliant.org/Newsthink/ for FREE for 30 days, and get 20% off your annual premium subscription. I highly recommend Sylvia Nasar's biography of John Nash called A Beautiful Mind: https://a.co/d/28g9nCV Chapters: 00:00 The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of John Nash 0:50 His Early Life: Gifted but Socially Awkward 1:10 Discovering His True Passion: Mathematics 2:14 Life at Princeton: Eccentric Genius 3:53 Challenging John von Neumann 5:07 Nash Equilibrium 6:07 Manifolds 6:59 Embedding Theorems 8:09 Complicated Personal Life 8:51 Meeting Alicia 9:26 Descent into Madness 10:47 Fleeing to Europe 11:35 Return to America 13:37 A Remarkable Recovery 14:44 The Nobel Prize in Economics 16:33 The Tragic End 17:30 Today’s Sponsor: Brilliant Follow Newsthink on X https://x.com/Newsthink Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom https://x.com/cindypom Grab your Newsthink merch here: https://newsthink.creator-spring.com Support Cindy on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/Newsthink Music: Performance of Bach’s ‘Little’ Fugue in G minor, BWV 578, by Dario Ronchi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZd2q3BYPwI Sources: Historical newspaper of New York Times: Steve Goldman HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on eBay https://www.ebay.com/str/stevegoldmanhistoricalnewspapers Bluefield, West Virginia footage courtesy of Mountain Roots on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MountainRoots/videos Bluefield, West Virginia image: By SheepNotGoats at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 Men of Mathematics footage courtesy of BriTheMathGuy on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=gz65LFrXOlg Chemical process engineering drawing: CS Odessa, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Chemistry laboratory: Wellcome Images, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons East Pyne classroom at Princeton University: Photo: Andreas Praefcke, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour by John von Neumann: Todd Huffman from Phoenix, AZ, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Great Dome at MIT (daylight): By Mys 721tx - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 Great Dome at MIT (night): Fcb981, this edited version by Thermos, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Mikhail Gromov footage: Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES) - Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2StA4Rd0NbA McLean Hospital: John Phelan, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons U.S. Embassy in Luxembourg: GilPe, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Nassau Street sign: Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Trenton Psychiatric Hospital images: By Famartin - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Cannon Green and Nassau Hall, Princeton University: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Simon Marks reporting on the Soviet Coup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsF4c06txHM John and Alicia Nash’s gravestone photograph by Kurt Tazelaar uploaded to Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146909922/alicia_esther-nash#view-photo=165409018John Nash at the Economic Forum: Economicforum, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons