A Beautiful Mind (99 page)

and potential Michigan position,
303

sociability encouraged by,
33

Nash, Martha (sister),
see
Legg, Martha Nash

Nash, Martha Smith (grandmother),
26

Nash, Richard (cousin),
293
,
320
–21

Mary Nash College for Women,
26

Nash equilibrium,
115
,
118
,
119
,
329
,
339
,
361
–62,
375

assessment of,
96
–98

dominant vs. dominated strategies in,
97

elaboration of,
93
–96

see also
Nobel Prize in economics of 1994

Nash-Moser theorem,
159

Nathanson, Melvyn,
346

National Academy of Sciences,
95
,
115
,
131

National Science Foundation (NSF),
107
,
236
,
296
,
313
,
314

Navier-Stokes equations,
297

Navy, U.S.,
82
,
83
,
125
,
126
,
134
,
135

negotiation, in game theory,
120

Nehru, Jawaharlal,
278

Nelson, Ed,
284
,
286
,
296
,
300

Nerval, Gerard de,
228

Neuwirth, Jerome,
144
,
182
,
231

New Jersey Transit,
346

Newman, Donald “D.J.,”
12
,
139
,
143
,
144
–45,
146
,
169
,
180
,
200
,
237
,
240

on Bricker and Nash,
180

on Nash,
159

Nash’s McLean commitment and,
257
–258

and onset of Nash’s schizophrenia,
243
,
246

Newman, Herta,
143
,
181
,
196
,
200

Newman, Peter,
329

New Palgrave, The,
20
,
98

Newton, Isaac,
12
,
15
,
17
,
35
,
51
,
52
,
56
,
85
,
94

New York Times,
70
,
86
,
100
,
236
,
241
–42,
374

New York University,
see
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

New Zealand,
377

Nietzsche, Friedrich,
12
,
139
,
235

Nijenhuis, Albert,
205
,
206

Nilges, Edward G.,
350

Nimitz, Nancy,
185

Nirenberg, Louis,
203
,
216
,
218
–19,
243
,
301

Nobel, Alfred,
358
,
362

Nobel Foundation,
357
,
358

Nobel Prize in economics,
55
,
107

ad hoc committee on future of,
372
–73

criteria for,
358

establishment of,
358
,
368

1972,
108

1986,
364

1991,
364

1993,
363

proposed abolition of,
368

reform of,
369

selection process for,
358
–60

unpopularity of,
368

Nobel Prize in economics of 1994,
150
,
224
,
275
/297

ceremonies for,
374
,
379
–80

delayed press conference about,
356
–57

deliberations on,
357
,
360
–73

dinner in celebration of,
77

Nash informed of,
22
,
371
,
373

voting for,
370
–72

Nobel Prize in literature,
357

Nobel Prize in peace,
357

Nobel Prize in physics:

1943,
41

1963,
53

nonexpanding universe,
380
,
382

nonlinear partial differential equations,
217
–20,
223
–24,
226
,
231
,
234
,
243
,
247
,
300
,
318

non-zero-sum games,
87

Norfolk & Western Railroad,
28
,
104
,
323

North, Douglass,
354
,
363

North Carolina, University of,
148

NSF (National Science Foundation),
107
,
236
,
296
,
313
,
314

nuclear weapons,
56
–57

game theory and,
119

hydrogen bomb,
81
,
93
,
109
,
110

Manhattan Project and,
56
,
81
,
107
,
110
,
153
,
193

RAND and,
104
–5,
106
,
109
,
119
,
121

number theory,
21
,
35
,
45
,
56
,
346

see also
Riemann Hypothesis

numerology,
334
–35,
350

Office of Naval Research (ONR),
123
,
124
,
125
,
126
,
219
,
313
,
314

Office of the Chief of Ordnance,
56

Ohlin, Bertil,
359

ONR (Office of Naval Research),
123
,
124
,
125
,
126
,
219
,
313
,
314

Operation Match,
319

operations research,
56

Oppenheimer, Robert,
19
,
50
,
53
,
79
,
193

hydrogen bomb and,
81
,
93
,
109

on IAS,
215

McCarthyism and,
110
,
153

Nash’s argument with,
220
–21

Nash’s IAS appointments and,
296
,
308
,
311

on Nash’s sanity,
294

Oskar II, king of Sweden and Norway,
129

Ostrowski, Alexander,
303

Otis, William,
305

Pais, Abraham,
221

Palais, Richard,
231
–32,
313
,
317
,
319
,
321

Palme, Olof,
359
,
364

parabolic equations,
see
nonlinear partial differential equations

Parker, Charlie,
156

Parker Brothers,
76
,
78

Parmet, Belle,
307

partial differential equations,
137
–38

nonlinear,
217
–20,
223
–24,
226
,
231
,
234
,
243
,
247
,
300
,
318

Partial Differential Relations
(Gromov),
158

Patri, Angelo,
33

Peisakoff, Melvin,
72
,
126

Personality of Criminals, The
(Stearns),
261

Persson, Torsten,
362
,
364
,
367

Pitts, Walter,
134

Plath, Sylvia,
211
,
255

Plato,
94

Poincaré, Jules Henri,
12
,
45
,
93
,
129

Polya, George,
230

Portugal,
290

Post, Emil,
180

Poundstone, William,
76
,
106
,
119

“Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship,”
106

Princeton, N.J.

history of,
49

as mathematics capital,
50
–51

Princeton University,
45

description of,
50

dinner at,
61
–62

graduate housing at,
61
–62

history of,
51

student life at,
61
–62

Princeton University mathematics department games played at,
75
–78

girls absent from,
62

grades as fiction at,
60

Nash offered one-year post at,
309
–10,
311
,
312

Nash’s fellowship to,
46

Nash’s graduate work at,
45
–47,
49
,
58
–98

philosophy of education at,
60
–61

rise of,
52
–57,
58

students of,
64
–65

teatime at,
63
,
67

Principia
(Newton),
85

Prisoner’s Dilemma,
118
–19,
150

Prisoners Dilemma
(Poundstone),
76

Private Terror/Public Places
(Glass),
335

“Problème de Cauchy Pour les Equations Differentielles d’une Fluide Générale, Le” (Nash),
297

Prospect High School,
192

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

Pythagoras,
94

Pythagoras’ Trousers
(Wertheim),
334

quantum theory,
45
,
70
,
81
,
138
,
202
,
220
–221,
222
–23,
236

Queen Mary,
265
,
269
,
282
,
311
–12

Rademacher, Hans,
246

Radio Corporation of America (RCA),
283
,
341

Raiffa, Howard,
122