TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Born to an electrical engineer, and later a precocious and dashing young man who attained an Ivy League education, John Nash seemed destined for a life of stunning success. That ...

A Beautiful Mind is based on the life of mathematician John Nash. Ron Howard directed this film from a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman. It's an adaptation of Nash's namesake unauthorized biography by ...

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It is a commonplace that John Nash, the Nobel-Prize winning mathematician and economist who recently died, had “schizophrenia.” All his obituaries repeat the formula, and the assumption of the book ...