A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994 Book

CONTENTS

 Prologue............................................................11
 Part One: A Beautiful Mind 1 Bluefield (1928-45).........................................25 2 Carnegie Institute of Technology (June 1945-June 1948)......40 3 The Center of the Universe (Princeton, Fall 1948)...........49 4 School of Genius (Princeton, Fall 1948).....................58 5 Genius (Princeton, 1948-49).................................66 6 Games (Princeton, Spring 1949)..............................75 7 John von Neumann (Princeton, 1948-49).......................79 8 The Theory of Games.........................................83 9 The Bargaining Problem (Princeton, Spring 1949).............88 10 Nash's Rival Idea (Princeton, 1949-50).....................92 11 Lloyd (Princeton, 1950)....................................99 12 The War of Wits (RAND, Summer 1950).......................104 13 Game Theory at RAND.......................................115 14 The Draft (Princeton, 1950-51)............................123 15 A Beautiful Theorem (Princeton, 1950-51)..................128 16 MIT.......................................................133 17 Bad Boys..................................................139 18 Experiments (RAND, Summer 1952)...........................147 19 Reds (Spring 1953)........................................152 20 Geometry..................................................155
 Part Two: Separate Lives 21 Singularity...............................................167 22 A Special Friendship (Santa Monica, Summer 1952)..........169 23 Eleanor...................................................172 24 Jack......................................................180 25 The Arrest (RAND, Summer 1954)............................184 26 Alicia....................................................190 27 The Courtship.............................................199 28 Seattle (Summer 1956).....................................203 29 Death and Marriage (1956-57)..............................208
 Part Three: A Slow Fire Burning 30 Olden Lane and Washington Square (1956-57)................215 31 The Bomb Factory..........................................222 32 Secrets (Summer 1958).....................................228 33 Schemes (Fall 1958).......................................235 34 The Emperor of Antarctica.................................239 35 In the Eye of the Storm (Spring 1959).....................248 36 Day Breaks in Bowditch Hall (McLean Hospital, April-May 1959)................................................253 37 Mad Hatter's Tea (May-June 1959)..........................262
 Part Four: The Lost Years 38 Citoyen du Monde (Paris and Geneva, 1959-60)..............269 39 Absolute Zero (Princeton, 1960)...........................283 40 Tower of Silence (Trenton State Hospital, 1961)...........288 41 An Enforced Interlude of Rationality (July 1961-April 1963)...............................................295 42 The "Blowing Up" Problem (Princeton and Carrier Clinic, 1963-65)...............................................305 43 Solitude (Boston, 1965-67)................................314 44 A Man All Alone in a Strange World (Roanoke, 1967-70).....323 45 Phantom of Fine Hall (Princeton, 1970s)...................332 46 A Quiet Life (Princeton, 1970-90).........................340
 Part Five: The Most Worthy 47 Remission.................................................349 48 The Prize.................................................356 49 The Greatest Auction Ever (Washington, D. C., December 1994).................................................374 50 Reawakening (Princeton, 1995-97)..........................379
 Notes..............................................................389 Select Bibliography................................................435 Acknowledgments....................................................439 Index..............................................................441