![]() ![]() Gradually, Nash’s condition improves and by the 1990s he is more like his old self, still eccentric but no longer delusional. New students call him “the Phantom” because of his gaunt, disheveled appearance. ![]() During these relapses he travels to Europe several times, attempting to renounce his American citizenship to become a citizen of the world.Īfter several years of struggling with Nash’s condition, Alicia divorces him and he is left confused and delusional, wandering around Princeton campus writing incomprehensible messages on blackboards. For several years, he is in and out of clinics, recovering and being released and then relapsing again. Nash is involuntarily committed to a mental hospital and diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Paranoid and distracted, he begins writing incomprehensible letters to foreign officials and talking about world government and threats to world peace. He becomes delusional, seeing patterns in mundane occurrences and becoming convinced that he is receiving messages from foreign governments and aliens. However, Nash’s mental health declines sharply. Although he continues to see both Eleanor and Bricker for some time, he eventually marries Alicia and for a while they are quite content. Shaken from his experiences, Nash starts a relationship with Alicia, an ex-student of his, who pursues him enthusiastically, determined to win his heart. Later, Nash is arrested for indecent exposure after a sting operation in a public convenience and loses his position at RAND. ![]() The relationship is not entirely happy but it helps Nash appreciate human connections. Around the same time, Nash begins a relationship with Jack Bricker, a mathematics student two years his junior. They have a child together but, to Eleanor’s dismay, Nash does not offer to marry her or even support her, suggesting that she should put the child up for adoption. Shortly after, Nash begins a secret relationship with a nurse named Eleanor. The relationship is brief and furtive but is also the first time he experiences reciprocity, helping him move out of his emotional isolation. Around this same time, he experiences the first of several sexual relationships with men. Nash takes a lecturing position at MIT as well as summer consultancies at the RAND Corporation. While at Princeton, Nash conducts research on game theory, coming up with a theorem later known as the “Nash equilibrium.” Though some consider his work important, it is not until much later that this research will become a key part of modern economics and, eventually, win Nash a Nobel Prize. Nevertheless, his tutors recognize his great potential and he begins to develop a reputation as a great original thinker, as well as an eccentric scholar who spends much of his time wandering around lost in thought. Nash continues to be unpopular with his fellows when he becomes a graduate student at Princeton University. He is not popular with his fellow students who find him odd, arrogant, and immature. After a year, he abandons engineering to major in mathematics. Intending to become an engineer like his father, Nash secures a scholarship to study at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. ![]()
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