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John Forbes Nash

John Forbes Nash was born June 13, 1928 in Bluefield, West Virginia.  Is an American mathematician who received the economy Nobel Prize. When he was kid he always played alone and was an egocentric guy.  

His father was an electrical engineer and his mother, Margaret Virginia Martin had been a schoolteacher before she married.  He had a younger sister, Martha, born November 16, 1930.

Nash won a scholarship and in June, 1945 he enrolled in the Carnegie Mellon University, there started with the mathematics. Three years later went to Princeton University, (Albert Einstein and John Von Neumann studied there) to increase his studies. In the recommendation letter put: “This man is a genius”

Nash in this University created his equilibrium theory.

He was married with Alicia Lardé one of his students. One year later Nash discovered that has schizophrenia and entered in a hospital, He had live with hi hallucinations the rest of his life.

There is a movie of the life of Nash; it calls “A Beautiful Mind”.