Saturday 14 August 2010

"Nash's Psychological Disorder," Pong

Today, I will blog about psychological disorder that affected to the life of a famous scientist named "Nash".

John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician who work on the mathematics of game theory, shared the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, Nobel, 1994, with two other scientists, was suffered from paranoid Schizophrenia. His symptoms were too far beyond my imagination, "he attempted to establish a world government and resign his United States citizenship because he was convinced he was a political prisoner. He also declared himself the emperor of Antarctica and tried to establish a defense fund for what he believed was an impending extra-terrestrial attack." (John Forbes Nash, Jr., Biography, Battled Mental Illness, 3).

His illness rendered him like a madman. He was forced to seperate from his beloved wife, Alicia. But he was not surrender. He fought with it and his illness eventually remission. Although it is not completely dissappear, he and Alicia has remarried, looked after on each other, and raised they beloved sons. I wish you successfully cope with it, Nash.

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References
Hartmann, P. (2007). Quest 2 Reading and Writing, (2nd. ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

"John F. Nash, Jr. - Autobiography", Nobelprize.org, Retrieved August 14, 2010 from http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1994/nash-autobio.html

John Forbes Nash, Jr., Answers.com, Retrieved August 14, 2010 from http://www.answers.com/topic/john-forbes-nash

Schizophrenia. (2010, August 12). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 02:03, August 14, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Schizophrenia&oldid=378576095

2 comments:

  1. Have you seen the film A Beautiful Mind, which is based on Nash's life?
    I recommend it as a portrayal of the horror of schizophrenia. The film brings out very well Nash's symptoms, which included all four listed in "What is Abnormal?", which we read on Friday.

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  2. No, but I think AUA library have one. Maybe some of our classmates have already seen. Well, I really want to take a look at it. Thank Peter.

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