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A Brilliant Madness | Article

RAND Corporation

John Nash, like so many of the best scientific minds of the late 1940s and 1950s, was drawn into a military think tank — the RAND Corporation.

A Brilliant Madness | Article

Math and Science Achievement in the U.S.

Abraham Flexner, an expert in medical education, convinced the Bamberger family to establish Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

A Brilliant Madness | Article

Cold War Hysteria

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.

A Brilliant Madness | Article

Mental Illness in Film

It should surprise no one that the myth-making industry gets mental illness, especially schizophrenia, wrong more often than right.

A Brilliant Madness | Article

Recovery from Schizophrenia

The possibilities of recovery and the search for treatments are the subjects of an enormous amount of research, and a wide range of opinion.

A Brilliant Madness | Article

John Nash (1928-2015)

The first hint of John Nash's math talent came in fourth grade, when a teacher told his mother that the boy couldn't do the math.

A Brilliant Madness | Article

Alicia Nash (1933-2015)

Alicia entered Nash's life as a young M.I.T. student dazzled by a star professor.

A Brilliant Madness | Article

John Nash and the Nobel Prize

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.