Due to the earthquake of 1906, San Franciscans had to delay their grand plans for what was to become the Panama Pacific International Exposition. But by 1909 the city had recovered sufficiently for its residents to focus on the exhibition again.
In 1953, while Nash was at M.I.T., FBI agents went after three members of the university's math department who previously had been members of the Communist Party.
When the economics committee asked a young researcher, Ariel Rubinstein, to report on the most promising Nobel candidates in game theory, Nash's name topped the list.
