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John Nash: His life and Contributions to Mathamatics John Nash was born June 13, 1928 in Bluefield, West Virginia. He burst onto the mathematical scene in 1948. When he was twenty years old, he was accepted into Princeton University by a one line recommendation letter saying, "This man is a genius". About a year later Nash had completed a twenty-seven page thesis that would later win him a Nobel Prize. Over the next decade, his stunning achievements and flamboyant behavior made Nash a celebrity in the mathematics world. Donald Newman, a mathematician who knew him in the early 1950s, called him "a bad boy, but a great one." Lloyd Shapley, a fellow graduate student at Princeton, said of Nash, "What redeemed him was a clear, logical, beautiful mind." Obsessed with originality, disdainful of authority, supremely self-confident, Nash rushed in where more conventional minds refused to tread. "Everyone else would climb a peak...

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