A Beautiful Mind (95 page)

Fortune,
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Foundations of Economic Theory
(Samuelson),
86

Fox, Ralph,
64
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72
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75

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
(Shelley),
273

Fredga, Kerstin,
360
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370
,
372

Freud, Sigmund,
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94

Freudian theory,
188
,
250
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259
–60,
351

Friedrichs, Kurt,
225
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226

Fuchs, Klaus,
110

Fuchsian functions,
93

Fuck Your Buddy,
102

Fukuda, Hiroshi,
75

Fulbright program,
236

Galbraith, John Kenneth,
116

Gale, David,
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64
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77
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78
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83
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100
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308
–9

Nash equilibrium and,
95

Gallagher, Chicky,
193

Galmarino, Alberto,
240
–41

games:

non-zero-sum,
87

two-person zero-sum,
14
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87
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96
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115
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116
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119

“Games Against Nature” (Milnor),
149

Games and Decisions
(Luce and Raiffa),
122

game theory,
56
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84
–91,
101
,
286

application of,
374
–78

Econometric Society and,
354

MIT seminar on,
319

Nash’s course in,
240
–41,
265

and Nash’s graduate studies,
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–87,
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–91,
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Nash’s introduction to,
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in
New Palgrave,
20

1961 conference on,
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–97

1964 conference on,
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in Nobel deliberations,
357
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360
–73

origins of,
13
–14

RAND and,
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–5,
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111
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115
–22,
149
–51

Tucker and,
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–65,
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von Neumann’s role in,
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–14,
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–87,
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–18,
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see also
bargaining; min-max theorem; Nash equilibrium

Gangolli, Ramesh,
240
–41

Garabedian, Paul,
219
–20

Garber, Robert,
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Gårding, Lars,
219
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Garsia, Adriano,
237
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Garson, Greer,
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Gauss, Carl Friedrich,
35
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69
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128
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141
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230

Gauss’s proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra,
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Gauthier, Jacqueline,
260
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261

General Electric,
27

general theory of relativity,
52
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70
,
86
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231
,
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geniuses:

clusters of,
94

schizophrenia and,
19

geometry:

algebraic,
96

continuous,
81

differential,
203

and Nash’s graduate studies,
68

non-Euclidean,
231

see also
Riemannian manifolds

Germany, East,
281

Germany, Nazi,
84
,
115

Gibbon, Edward,
58

Gibbs, Willard,
51

Gide, Andre,
310
–11

Gillespie, Charles,
337

Girschick, Abraham,
117

Glass, James,
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335

Gleason, Andrew,
146

Gleason, Jackie,
193

go,
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100
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343

Gödel, Kurt,
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,
355

Goodwin, Ruth,
243
–44

Goheen, Robert,
287
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310

Goldin, Claudia,
338

Goldman, Oscar,
252

Goldschmidt, Hubert,
298

Goldstine, Hermann,
82

Gonshor, Harry,
144
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343

Goodman, Leo,
210

Gordon, Julie,
355

Gore, Al,
374
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375

Gottesman, Irving I.,
17
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188

Grant, Mrs. Austin,
172

Gromov, Mikhail,
12
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158
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318

Grothendieck, Alexandre,
279
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298
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312
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334

Guggenheim Foundation,
236

Gunderson, John G.,
16

Haber, Seymour,
146

Hahn, Otto,
56

Halmos, Paul,
12
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159

Hardwick, Elizabeth,
256
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259

Hardy, G. H.,
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Harish-Chandra,
286

Harsanyi, John C.,
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at 1961 conference,
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Nobel deliberations on,
363
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364
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373

Harvard University,
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–135,
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Haslam, John,
275

Hausner, Melvin,
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69
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73

Hayek, Friedrich von,
367

Heifetz, Jascha,
246

Heilbroner, Robert,
89

Hein, Piet,
76
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78

Heisenberg, Werner,
70
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221

Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle,
221

Henkin, Leon,
62
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64

Henry, Agnes,
126
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285

Herter, Christian A.,
278
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279

Hex,
76
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78
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299

see also
“Nash”

Hicks, John,
89
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108

Hilbert, David,
52
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53
,
81
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157

Hilbert’s Fifth Problem,
81
,
146

Hilbert spaces,
44

Hincks, Ruth,
147
–48,
174

Hinman, George,
42
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44

Hironaka, Heisuke,
309
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333

Hiroshima bombing (1945),
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Hitch, Charles,
122

Hitler, Adolf,
84

Hoffman, Abbie,
271

Hoffman, Alan,
339

Holder estimates,
219
,
225

homology theory,
68
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69

homotopy chains,
69

Hopf, Heinz,
162
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225

Hörmander, Lars,
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–27,
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Nobel deliberations and,
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366

Hoselitz, Bert,
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Houghton, Amory,
279

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC),
152
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Howard, Paul,
222

Hurwicz, Leo,
85

hydrogen bomb,
81
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93
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109
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110

hyperbolic equations,
see
nonlinear partial differential equations

I Am a Genius
(Wiener),
136

I Am a Mathematician
(Wiener),
136

IAS,
see
Institute for Advanced Study

IBM,
82

ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles),
106
,
110

If,
142

IHES (Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques),
279
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280
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298
,
311

Île de France,
233

Immigration Act (1941),
271
–72

implicit-function theorems,
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222
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243

impossibility theorem,
108

Ingham, Albert E.,
229
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232
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238

“Insanity Bit, The” (Krim),
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Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES),
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Institute for Advanced Study (IAS):

activities at,
63

creation of,
54
–55

description of,
50
,
215
–16

Gödel’s professorship at,
355

Lefschetz on,
59