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Autobiography

By: John F. Nash Jr.

Date: 1994

Source: Nash, John F. "John F. Nash, Jr.—Autobiography." The Nobel Foundation. Available online at http://www.nobel.se/economics/laureates/1994/nash-autobio.h... ; website home page: http://www.nobel.se/ (accessed June 13, 2003).

About the Author: John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928–) was born in Bluefield, West Virginia, and received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1950. He joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, resigning in 1959 when schizophrenia began to impair his judgment. Intermittent stays in asylums punctuated travel in Europe and periods of lucid concentration on mathematics. He seems to have willed his own recovery and won the 1994 Nobel Prize in economics.

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