by Sylvia Nasar
algebraic manifolds, 123–24, 128–32
algebraic topology, 59, 68
algebraic varieties, 131, 309
Allen, Beth, 354, 355
Amadur, Izzy, 153
Amadur, Ted, 153
Ambrose, Warren, 143, 155–56, 159, 162, 163, 203, 282
American Journal of Mathematics, 226–27
American Mathematical Society (AMS), 38, 226, 245–46, 303
Amherst College, 344, 387
analysis:
complex, 130
at Princeton, 64
“Analyticity of Solutions of Implicit Function Problems with Analytic Data” (Nash), 317–18
Ankeny, Barbara, 202
Ankeny, Nesmith, 202
Annals of Mathematics, 58, 72, 131, 161, 318
antipsychotics, 329, 353
anti-Semitism, 58, 135, 136, 137, 146, 216
Anti-Submarine Warfare Operations Evaluation Group (ASWOEG), 116
Appalachian Power Company, 27, 33
Arafat, Yasir, 357
Archimedes, 94
Aristophanes, 94
Aristotle, 94, 275
Army, U.S., 134
Arnold, Henry “Hap,” 106
Arrow, Kenneth:
Nobel awarded to, 107, 358, 360
at RAND, 107–8, 109, 113, 115, 117, 118
artificial intelligence, 102
Artin, Emil, 19, 64, 73, 159, 210, 229, 239, 281
Nash opposed by, 73–74, 132
Artin, Karin (Tate), 73, 239, 242
Artin, Michael, 129, 131, 281
Artin, Natasha, 210
Art of the Fugue, The (Bach), 113
Asimov, Isaac, 105
Assadi, Amir, 337–38, 343
ASWOEG (Anti-Submarine Warfare Operations Evaluation Group), 116
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 74, 80, 107, 110, 122, 134, 216
auctions, 374–78
Augenstein, Bruno, 107
Aumann, Robert, 140, 156, 354
in Nobel deliberations, 362, 363
Australia, 377
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 113
Bailey, Anna, 343
Balzac, Honoré de, 325
Bamberger family, 54
Bank of Sweden, 358, 368
Baptist Standard, 26
bargaining, 88–91, 129, 149–51
“Bargaining Problem, The” (Nash), 88, 120, 360
BASIC, 71
Baumecker, Peter, 289–90, 292, 294
Baumol, William, 102
Baylor College, 26
Beckenback, Alice, 299
Bell, E. T., 34, 35, 229, 230–31, 232
Bell Jar, The (Plath), 211
Bellman, Richard, 110, 185
Berge, Claude, 243
Bers, Lipman, 246
Best, Richard, 184, 185–86, 189
Bewley, Truman, 354, 355
Binmore, Kenneth, 355
bipolar disorder (manic depressive illness), 18, 258, 318–19
Birkhoff, G. D., 53, 55, 103, 136
Blackwell, David, 117
Blake, William, 13
Bletchley Park, 56, 107
Bleuler, Eugen, 17
Bleuler, Manfred, 352
Bluefield, West Va., description of, 28
Bluefield College, 35, 39
Bluefield Daily Telegraph, 33, 38
Bluefield Supply, 33
Bôcher Prize, 138, 226–27, 237, 243
Bochner, Salomon, 64, 71, 128, 132
Boeing, 342–43
Bohnenblust, H. Frederic, 103, 117
Bohr, Harald, 49, 50
Bohr, Niels, 50, 56, 70
Bombieri, Enrico, 20–21, 229, 230, 388
Borel, Armand, 264, 272, 301, 313
as Annals of Mathematics editor, 318
Carrier Clinic visits of, 307
IAS appointments arranged by, 296, 308
Nashes’ socializing with, 299, 380, 386
Nash recommended by, 321
on Nash’s embedding theorem, 161–62
Nash’s nonsensical calls to, 286
Borel, Emile, 81
Borel, Gaby, 264, 299, 344, 380, 386
Borsuk, Karol, 72
Borsuk conjecture, 72
Bott, Raoul, 40, 41, 203, 240
Boy Scouts, 33
Bradley, Bernard E., 261
Brandeis University, 314–22
Brauer, Fred, 146
Brenner, Joseph, 239, 258
Brezhnev, Leonid, 332
Bricker, Jacob Leon, 144, 223, 321
Alicia Larde and, 200–201
Eleanor Stier and, 177, 178, 181, 182, 206–7
Nash’s delusions about, 326
Nash’s relationship with, 180–83, 204, 206–7
bridge, 142
Brieskorn, Egbert, 318
Brod, Max, 278
Brode, Wallace, 279
Bronx High School, 142
Brouwer’s fixed point theorem, 45, 128, 362
Browder, Earl, 153
Browder, Eva, 233–34, 380
Browder, Felix, 73, 142, 154, 157, 229, 244, 246–47
Nashes’ British trip and, 233–34
Nashes’ socializing with, 380, 386
on Nash’s defection effort, 281
Nash’s McLean commitment and, 257
Browder, William, 309, 335
Brown, Douglas, 126, 310, 312
Brownian motion, 55
Buchanan, James, 364
Buchwald, Art, 271
Bulletin de la Société Mathématique de France, 298
Bunker Hill Community College, 344
Burr, Stefan, 299
Bush, Vannevar, 137
Calabi, Eugenio, 64, 68, 72, 232, 244–45
Calabi, Giuliana, 245
calculus, tensor, 380
California Institute of Technology, 375
Camus, Albert, 271
Cantorian set theory, 52
Cappell, Sylvain, 99
Carl XVI Gustav, king of Sweden, 379–80
Carleson, Lennart, 223–24, 226, 227
Carnegie Institute of Technology, 35, 39–45, 129, 362
description of, 40
Carrier Clinic, 304, 305–8, 312–13, 43, 344
Cartan, Elie-Joseph, 157
Cartwright, Mary, 57
Casals, Pablo, 193
Castle, The (Kafka), 273, 278
Cauchy problem, 297–98
Cauvin, Jean-Pierre, 284, 298, 308
Cauvin, Louisa, 308
Central Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Science in Memory of Alfred Nobel, see Nobel Prize in economics
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 134
Centre de la Recherches Nationale Scientifiques, 298
Chamberlain, Gary, 354
Charles, Ray, 255
Chern, Shiing-shen, 72, 236, 279
Chiang Kai-shek, 153
Chicago, University of, 45, 132, 236, 237, 244
China, 153
Choate, Hall & Steward, 153
Chung, Kai Lai, 66
Church, Alonzo, 63, 64, 93
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), 134
City College, 142, 144, 180
John Bates Clark medal for economics, 369
Clark University, 59
C. L. E. Moore instructorships, 132, 135, 139, 142, 157, 160, 162
Clozapine, 329
Clozaril, 384
Coase, Ronald, 364, 375–76
Cocteau, Jean, 310–11
Cohen, Paul J., 155, 160, 215–16, 230, 236–38, 240, 241, 259, 349
Nash’s McLean commitment and, 253, 257
and onset of Nash’s schizophrenia, 242–243, 250, 251
College de France, 236, 265, 285
1962 conference at, 300–301
Communist Party (Great Britain), 110
Communist Party (U.S.), 135, 152–54
competitive equilibrium, 108
Compleat Strategyst, The (Williams), 83
complex analysi
s, 130
complex variables, theory of, 67
Compton, Karl, 153
Compton’s Pictured Encyclopedia, 32
computer theory, 56, 65, 82
Con Edison, 343, 344
continuity theorem, 219–20, 225
continuous geometry, 81
Conway, John, 158
Courant, Richard, 210, 216, 219
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 216–17, 223, 224
Cournot, Antoine-Augustin, 14
Cox, Edward, 278
creativity, schizophrenia and, 15–16
cryptography, 55–56
cybernetics, 55, 135
Cyert, Richard, 40
Cziffra, Peter, 334
Dagens Nyheter, 371
Dahmen, Erik, 368
Dalkey, N., 117
Danskin, John, 280, 282, 284, 296, 301, 303
Eleanor Stier’s complaints to, 296
at game-theory conference, 313
Nash’s behavior described by, 286–87
Nash’s job search and, 283, 284
Nash’s Trenton State hospitalization and, 290–91, 292
Danskin, Odette Larde, 212, 284, 287, 296, 303, 342
Danskin’s marriage to, 283
Nashes’ European stay and, 270, 273, 276, 277, 279, 280
Dasgupta, Partha, 362
Davies, John D., 51, 56
Davis, Garry, 271, 282
Davis, Joyce, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 202, 211, 283, 343
Davis, Martin, 67–68
Davis, Meyer, 271
De Giorgi, Ennio, 219–20, 224, 225
Dejarnette State Sanitarium, 331
Delusion (Glass), 335
de Rham, Georges, 101
Descartes, Rene, 15, 35, 51
Dewey, Thomas E., 49, 62
Dickason, H. L., 124
Dickinson, Emily, 323
Dictionary of Scientific Biography (Gillespie, ed.), 337
DiMaggio, Joe, 192
Diophantine equations, 45, 334
Dirichlet, Peter Gustave Lejeune, 141
Dix, Dorothea, 289
Dixit, Avinash, 97, 375, 385
Doherty, Robert, 40–41
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 18
Douglas Aircraft, 106, 111, 113
Dresher, Melvin, 115, 119, 150
Dr. Strangelove, 80, 105
Duchane, Emma, 190, 196, 200–201, 202, 223
Alicia Nash’s apartment with, 262
Nash’s interest in, 317
Nash’s McLean commitment and, 255, 256, 257
and onset of Nash’s schizophrenia, 240, 242, 250, 251
Dudey, Marc, 350
duels, theory of, 121
Duffin, Richard, 41, 44–45, 46
Duke Journal of Mathematics, 318
Dynamics of Creation, The (Storr), 15
Dyson, Freeman, 20, 21, 221
Econometrica, 91, 120
Econometric Society, 20
Nash’s fellowship in, 354–55
economics:
bargaining and, 88–91, 120, 129, 149–151, 360
see also game theory; Nobel Prize in economics
Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro, 88, 89
Ehrlich, Phillip, 287
Eilenberg, Samuel, 68
Einstein, Albert, 12, 13, 15, 19, 41, 46, 50, 63, 79, 84, 87, 118, 216, 271, 308, 380
adolescence of, 35
Davis supported by, 271
and general theory of relativity, 52, 70, 86, 231, 380
on God, 66
go played by, 75
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle critiqued by, 221
on intellectual isolation, 59
on Kaluza’s theory, 94
liberal views of, 14
Nash’s meeting with, 70–71, 94, 382
nuclear warning of, 56
on Princeton, 49, 50–51
recruited to IAS, 54–55
relativity papers of, 52, 70, 86
and special theory of relativity, 51–52, 70, 86
Swiss citizenship of, 272
Eisenhart, Luthor, 53, 388
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 110, 111, 140, 185, 217
elections of 1948, 49, 62
elections of 1952, 140
electroshock, 293
Eliot, T. S., 98
El Salvador, 191
embedding, of Riemannian manifolds, 155–63, 203, 204, 218, 219, 345
Emery, Richard, 222, 239–40
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics, 297
entropy, 224
Epstein, Samuel, 254–55
Erdos, Paul, 346
ergodic theorem, 81
Erlenmeyer-Kimling, Nikki, 188
Esau, 327
Esmiol, Pattison, 314–15, 319, 321
Estermann, Immanuel, 41
Euclid, 35, 230
Euler, Leonhard, 230
Euripides, 94
exotic spheres, 203
Farinholt, Larkin, 280
Faulkner, James, 265
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 153, 154, 249, 281
Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 374, 376–78
Federer, Herbert, 161
Feenberg, Daniel, 336, 350
Feldt, Kjell Olof, 368
Feller, William, 129, 285
Fellows, Benjamin Pierce, 135
Fermat, Pierre de, 35, 51
Fermat’s Last Theorem, 203, 386
Fermat’s Theorem, 35
fiber bundles, 64
Fields, Kenneth, 345, 346, 351
Fields Medal, 20, 224, 236, 333, 369
description of, 225–26
1958, 234
1962, 232, 365
1966, 279
selection process for, 225
Fine, Henry Burchard, 52–53
first strike, 121
Fisher, Eric, 361
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 49
Flatto, Leopold “Poldy,” 144, 159, 163
Flexner, Abraham, 54
Flood, Merrill, 119, 121–22, 150, 303
Floyd Ward dancing school, 33
fluid dynamics, 294, 297
Fogel, Robert, 363
Forrester, Amasa, 203–6, 321
Fortune, 104, 106, 108, 115, 116, 216, 217, 224
