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

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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