Paranoid Schizophrenia: A Beautiful Mind
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
John Nash 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. Nash enrolled as a graduate student at Princeton in 1948 and almost immediately stood out as an odd duck. Unfortunately, enough for him his future is not as bright as his genius like capabilities. He attends Princeton as a graduate student who believes that his genius like abilities are at a higher-level than the rest of his class, not only them but his professors His monumental talents of code breaking in mid thought are one for the records. He devoted himself to finding something unique, a mathematical theorem that would be completely original. He kept to himself for the most part and while he went out for drinks with other students, he spends a lot of time with his roommate, Charles, who eventually becomes his best friend. He begins to hallucinate, consistently carrying on conversations and relationships with people who never existed. To make matters worse, he is already anti-social, and has a tendency to isolate and bury himself in work. John is soon a professor at MIT where he meets and eventually married a graduate student, Alicia. As time passes, his condition worsens. He begins to believe that there is this elaborate scheme against him; he believes he is being forced to work for the government to decipher codes. That they inserted a coded chip in order to keep track of him, and if he doesn’t comply with their wishes, they will expose him to the Russians, who in turn will kill him. This interferes with his personal and work life tremendously. Although he is able to carry on the basic everyday tasks such as taking care of personal hygiene and eating, he is not able to differentiate the real world from his imaginary world. Eventually, the situation gets to be so extreme that he is placed in a mental
John Nash 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. Nash enrolled as a graduate student at Princeton in 1948 and almost immediately stood out as an odd duck. Unfortunately, enough for him his future is not as bright as his genius like capabilities. He attends Princeton as a graduate student who believes that his genius like abilities are at a higher-level than the rest of his class, not only them but his professors His monumental talents of code breaking in mid thought are one for the records. He devoted himself to finding something unique, a mathematical theorem that would be completely original. He kept to himself for the most part and while he went out for drinks with other students, he spends a lot of time with his roommate, Charles, who eventually becomes his best friend. He begins to hallucinate, consistently carrying on conversations and relationships with people who never existed. To make matters worse, he is already anti-social, and has a tendency to isolate and bury himself in work. John is soon a professor at MIT where he meets and eventually married a graduate student, Alicia. As time passes, his condition worsens. He begins to believe that there is this elaborate scheme against him; he believes he is being forced to work for the government to decipher codes. That they inserted a coded chip in order to keep track of him, and if he doesn’t comply with their wishes, they will expose him to the Russians, who in turn will kill him. This interferes with his personal and work life tremendously. Although he is able to carry on the basic everyday tasks such as taking care of personal hygiene and eating, he is not able to differentiate the real world from his imaginary world. Eventually, the situation gets to be so extreme that he is placed in a mental