Beautiful Mind
A Beautiful Mind
By Ron Howard
A Beautiful Mind detailed the dramatic rise and fall of John Forbes Nash, the celebrated Nobel Prize winner and mathematician, as he battled the debilitating effects of schizophrenia to eventually attain international acclaim. Schizophrenia is characterized by a broad range of unusual behaviors that cause profound disruption in the lives of people suffering from the condition, as well as in the lives of the people around them. Schizophrenia strikes without regard to gender, race, social class or culture. (Bengston, 2012) John Nash had to go through a variety of treatments to outstand in his fight to overcome schizophrenia.
John Forbes Nash, Jr. (born June 13, 1928) is an American mathematician whose works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations have provided insight into the forces that govern chance and events inside complex systems in daily life. His theories are used in market economics, computing, evolutionary biology, artificial intelligence, accounting, politics and military theory. (Nash, 1994)
Beautiful Mind tries to capture the important details of his 400 pages autobiography book into a 140 minutes movie. It has been very criticized because of the “lies of omission “a lot of important details have been deleted from the movie, like his homosexual experiences with a lot of his so called “friends “.Nash made a sexual overture toward John Milnor, a fellow mathematician with whom Nash lived one summer while working for the RAND Corporation.
In 1954, Nash was arrested for indecent exposure in a bathroom in Santa Monica, which cost him his position at RAND. (He told his bosses that he was "merely observing behavioral characteristics.") (Suellentrop, 2001) John Nash went through a divorce with Alicia Larde, in the movie played by Jennifer Connelly, Her papers stated that Nash blamed her for twice committing him to a mental institution. He had moved into another room and refused to have
By Ron Howard
A Beautiful Mind detailed the dramatic rise and fall of John Forbes Nash, the celebrated Nobel Prize winner and mathematician, as he battled the debilitating effects of schizophrenia to eventually attain international acclaim. Schizophrenia is characterized by a broad range of unusual behaviors that cause profound disruption in the lives of people suffering from the condition, as well as in the lives of the people around them. Schizophrenia strikes without regard to gender, race, social class or culture. (Bengston, 2012) John Nash had to go through a variety of treatments to outstand in his fight to overcome schizophrenia.
John Forbes Nash, Jr. (born June 13, 1928) is an American mathematician whose works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations have provided insight into the forces that govern chance and events inside complex systems in daily life. His theories are used in market economics, computing, evolutionary biology, artificial intelligence, accounting, politics and military theory. (Nash, 1994)
Beautiful Mind tries to capture the important details of his 400 pages autobiography book into a 140 minutes movie. It has been very criticized because of the “lies of omission “a lot of important details have been deleted from the movie, like his homosexual experiences with a lot of his so called “friends “.Nash made a sexual overture toward John Milnor, a fellow mathematician with whom Nash lived one summer while working for the RAND Corporation.
In 1954, Nash was arrested for indecent exposure in a bathroom in Santa Monica, which cost him his position at RAND. (He told his bosses that he was "merely observing behavioral characteristics.") (Suellentrop, 2001) John Nash went through a divorce with Alicia Larde, in the movie played by Jennifer Connelly, Her papers stated that Nash blamed her for twice committing him to a mental institution. He had moved into another room and refused to have
Bibliography: Bengston, M. (2012, June 27). Schizophrenia Information & Treatment Introduction. Retrieved from PsychCentral: http://psychcentral.com/disorders/schizophrenia/ Nash, J. (1994). Autobiography. Retrieved from Nobel Prize: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1994/nash-autobio.html Suellentrop, C. (2001, December 21). A Real Number. Retrieved from Slate: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2001/12/a_real_number.html