A Beautiful Mind

In the film "A Beautiful Mind", John Nash is portrayed as a very intelligent mathematician. I was very surprised in the end of the movie when I found out that the main characters of the movie were all made up in John's head. My feelings toward the movie were that it was very intriguing that someone could live their entire life as though it was a math problem. It was very sad how someone so …

…overcome his disease, he is portrayed as a very strong willed person. Also, he went through a lot of hardships and still won the peace prize and kept a loving, healthy family. References 1) S Nasar, A beautiful mind (London-New York, 1998) 2) The work of John Nash in game theory: Nobel Seminar, December 8, 1994, J. Econom. Theory 69 (1) (1996), 153-185. 3) H W Kuhn, Introduction : Dedication to John F. Nash, Jr., A celebration of John F Nash, Jr., Duke Math. J. 81 (1) (1995),