2. Learn About the Beautiful Mind of John Forbes Nash Jr. (May 19th)
John Forbes Nash Jr. was a famous American mathematician whose contributions were in differential geometry, game theory, and the study of partial differential equations. He won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994 for developing in the Mathematics of game theory. Furthermore, in 2015, he won the Abel Prize on May 19th for his contributions to the study of partial differential equations, making him the first person to win both awards. His work, especially his theoretical studies, is valuable in economics and schools around the world. Many people knew him as the person in the film “A Beautiful Mind” with Russel Crowe. Like many Hollywood films, adaptions were in the movie.
In 1950, he earned his Ph.D. with a thesis about the definition and properties of what is known as the Nash equilibrium, an important concept when it comes to non-cooperative games, and made him win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and wrote four books about the idea. In 1959, he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. This disorder makes the patient feel paranoid and have fixed unrealistic, over-imaginative, or false beliefs, with experiences that feel real but not present. Even still, he never let the disorder stop him from being one of the most celebrated mathematicians in history.