NASH, John Forbes, jr [1928-2015] -- American mathematician & economist, Nobel prize

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Nobel prize (1994)
John von Neumann Theory Prize (1978)
Abel prize (2015)

Wiki: John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Afflicted with paranoid schizophrenia, he was able to overcome his illness by sheer force of intellect, without medication.

His story is told in the 1998 Sylvia Nasar biography, A Beautuful Mind, and inspired the 2001 Ron Howard film by the same name.

1959	Nash's wife has him committed to a mental hospital
1961-1970	Nash is in and out of psychiatric hospitals
1966	Nash develops his Riemannian Embedding Theorem
1978	John von Neumann Theory Prize
1994	Nobel prize
1998	A Beautiful Mind published
2001	A Beautiful Mind Ron Howard film released
2015	Abel prize

"Equilibrium Points in N-person Games" , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 36 (1950), 48-49

"Real algebraic manifolds" , Annals of Mathematics 56 (1952), 405-421. MR0050928

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