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Weissblum, Walter,
144

Wertheim, Margaret,
334

West, Andrew,
61

Westinghouse,
41

West Virginia University,
27

Weyl, Hermann,
52
,
53
,
54
–55,
74
,
157

Whitehead, George,
135
,
141
,
162
,
163
,
252

Moore visited by,
341

Whitehead, Kay,
252

Whiteman, Paul,
193

White Oak naval research project,
47

Whitney, Hassler,
55
,
203
,
266
,
282

Wiener, Norbert,
12
,
16
,
28
,
55
,
129
,
134
,
137
,
142
,
202
,
218
,
235
,
307

description of,
135
–36

Nash’s esteem for,
145
,
146
,
200

Nash’s McLean commitment and,
260

Nash’s 1959–60 European stay and,
277

Nash’s professorship and,
162
–63

Wiener, Theo,
136

Wigner, Eugene,
50
,
53
–54,
56

Wilczek, Frank,
333

Wilder, Raymond,
69

Wiles, Andrew,
203
,
386

Wilks, Sam,
56

William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition,
43
–44,
72
,
144

Williams, John,
38
–39,
83
,
111
,
112
,
113
,
114
,
116
–17,
119
,
124
,
170

Nash’s dismissal and,
185
–86,
187
,
188

Will to Power, The
(Nietzsche),
139

Wilson, James Q.,
261

Wilson, Robert,
376
,
377

Wilson, Woodrow,
51
,
52
–53,
61

Winokur, George,
351
,
352
–53

Winters, Robert,
291
,
303
,
304

Wirtschaftsprognose
(Morgenstern),
84

Wittgenstein, Ludwig,
15
,
66

Wohlstetter, Al,
121

Wordsworth, William,
5
,
11
,
25

World Citizen Registry,
271

World Federalists,
271

Worldly Philosophers, The
(Heilbroner),
89

World War I,
27

World War II,
35
–36,
39
,
107
,
124
,
193

mathematics and,
55
–57,
100

Yale University,
51
,
246
–47

Zariski, Oscar,
318

zero-sum two-person games,
14
,
87
,
95
,
96
,
115
,
116
,
119

Zeuthen, Dane F.,
89

Zur Theorie der Gesellschaftspiele
(von Neumann),
84

Zweifel, Paul,
42
,
43

Zyprexa,
384

Photo Credits
 

1

7
: Courtesy of Martha Nash Legg.

8

12
,
21
,
22
: Courtesy of John D. Stier.

13

16
,
18
,
19
,
23
: Courtesy of Alicia Nash.

17
: Adriano Garsia; courtesy of Alicia Nash.

20
: Courtesy of Richard Nash.

24
,
25
: Pressens Bild.

26
: Dick Pettersson,
Upsala Nya Tidning.

 

1. Virginia Nash with her children, Johnny and Martha, Bluefield, West Virginia, April 1935.

2. Martha and Johnny on a family holiday in Texas, circa 1939.

 

3. John Nash, Sr., napping in the company car, Bluefield, 1940s.

 

 

4, 5. John Nash standing tall —
above left,
at age six in Bluefield, and,
above right,
at his graduation at age twenty-one in Princeton, May 1950.

 

6.
Below left,
John Nash and his sister, Martha, Bluefield, fall 1948.

 

7.
Below right,
Martha, John Sr., John Jr., and Virginia Nash, Roanoke, summer 1954.

 

8.
Above left,
John Nash, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the early 1950s.

 

9.
Above,
the common-room crowd at MIT, Cambridge:
left to right,
John Nash, Walter Weissblum, Israel Young, Donald Newman, Jacob Bricker.

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