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The Mathematician Who Lost His Mind
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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Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom
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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
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By NewsthinkThe Mathematician Who Lost His Mind
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
Brilliant people shaping our world.
Follow the podcast & rate it 5 star!
Find Newsthink on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Newsthink
Disclaimer: This podcast is fan-made and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Newsthink. All content rights and trademarks belong to Newsthink. If you are the rightful owner and have any concerns, please get in touch with me directly.
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