A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genuis and Nobel Laureate John Nash Book

Contents

Prologue

Part One: A Beautiful Mind

1 Bluefield (1928-45)

2 Carnegie Institute of Technology (June 1945-June 1948)

3 The Center of the Universe (Princeton, Fall 1948)

4 School of Genius (Princeton, Fall 1948)

5 Genius (Princeton, 1948-49)

6 Games (Princeton, Spring 1949.)

7 John von Neumann (Princeton, 1948-49)

8 The Theory of Games

9 The Bargaining Problem (Princeton, Spring 1949)

10 Nash's Rival Idea (Princeton, 1949-50)

11 Lloyd (Princeton, 1950)

12 The War of Wits (RAND, Summer 1950)

13 Game Theory at RAND

14 The Draft (Princeton, 195O-51)

15 A Beautiful Theorem (Princeton, 1950-51)

16 MIT

17 Bad Boys

18 Experiments (RAND, Summer 1952)

19 Reds (Spring 1953)

20 Geometry

Part Two: Separate Lives

21 Singularity

22 A Special Friendship (Santa Monica, Summer 1952)

23 Eleanor

24 Jack

25 The Arrest (RAND, Summer 1954)

26 Alicia

27 The Courtship

28 Seattle (Summer 1956)

29 Death and Marriage (1956-57)

Part Three: A Slow Fire Burning

30 Olden Lane and Washington Square (1956-57)

31 The Bomb Factory

32 Secrets (Summer 1958)

33 Schemes (Fall 1958)

34 The Emperor of Antarctica

35 In the Eye of the Storm (Spring 1959)

36 Day-Breaks in Bowditch Hall (McLean Hospital, April-May, 1959)

37 Mad Hatter's Tea (May-June 1959)

Part Four: The Lost Years

38 Citoyen du Monde (Paris and Geneva, 1959-60)

39 Absolute Zero (Princeton, 1960)

40 Tower of Silence (Trenton State Hospital, 1961)

41 An Interlude of Enforced Rationality (July 1961-April 1963)

42 The "Blowing Up" Problem (Princeton and Carrier Clinic, 1963-65)

43 Solitude (Boston, 1965-67)

44 A Man All Alone in a Strange World (Roanoke, 1967-70)

45 Phantom of Fine Hall (Princeton, 1970s)

46 A Quiet Life (Princeton, 1970-90)

Part Five: The Most Worthy

47 Remission

48 The Prize

49 The Greatest Auction Ever (Washington, D.C., December 1994)

50 Reawakening (Princeton, 1995-97)

Notes

Select Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index