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Biography for John Nash
Date of Birth
13 June 1928, Bluefield Sanitarium; Bluefield, West Virginia; USA

Birth Name
John Forbes Nash Jr.

Height
6' 1" (1.85 m)

Spouse
Alicia Nash (1 June 2001 - present)
Alicia Nash (February 1957 - 2 August 1963) (divorced) 1 child

Trivia

According to Sylvia Nasar's biography of Nash, Alicia allowed him to live with her again in 1970 - 7 years after she divorced him - but as a boarder. After he won the Nobel Prize in 1994, they renewed their relationship.

Son John Charles Martin remained nameless for a year because Alicia, having just committed Nash to a mental hospital, felt that he should have a say in what to name the baby. As was his parents, John grew up to be a mathematician, but, like his father, he was diagnosed a paranoid schizophrenic.

Sons: John David Stier (b. 19 June 1953) by Eleanor Stier; John Charles Martin Nash (b. 20 May 1959) by wife Alicia. John David Stier became a nurse (his mother's profession); John Charles Martin Nash became a mathematician, but, like his father, was diagnosed a paranoid schizophrenic.

Is not the only legendary genius named John Nash to have suffered from a psychological disorder. The British architect John Nash, among whose greatest works were Buckingham Palace and the Royal Pavillion at Brighton, suffered from high-functioning autism.

Personal Quotes

"You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers. A movie, by the way, was made - sort of a small-scale offbeat movie - called Pi recently. I think it starts off with a big string of digits running across the screen, and then there are people who get concerned with various things, and in the end this Bible code idea comes up. And that ties in with numbers, so the relation to numbers is not necessarily scientific, and even when I was mentally disturbed, I had a lot of interest in numbers."

"In grade school, I would be doing arithmetic, and I found myself working with larger numbers than other students would be using. I would have several digits, and they would have maybe two or three digits. I would do multiplication and basic operation, but with larger numbers."

"Alicia was in a class that I was teaching. I think it was advanced calculus. She, of course, was one of the few girls that attracted my attention. But as she was, she didn't do well in the class; she had done better in other courses. But she sort of managed to cultivate my attention and so we began to get involved. I don't remember all the details. Of course, this sort of thing is in a way what is not supposed to happen. But of course it does happen to teachers and students. It's just a way you may meet people. Otherwise you don't meet enough."

Where Are They Now

(2002) Still resides in Princeton, NJ with his wife; Alicia Nash.