art psychology

A Beautiful Mind

Between the Unknown and the Real

Signs from John Nash

The Nobel Laureate in Mathematics , John Nash , underwent a significant confusion in his mind - inspire of his innovative brilliance in numbers Based on a book by Sylvia Nasar entitled A Beautiful Mind , John Nash 's bout with the unknown and the real was narrated . In a film that carried the same title of the book , John Nash 's debacle was dramatized

It has been analyzed and debated that the film dramatization of the emotional and psychological episodes of

John Nash carried some inaccuracies . Beginning from Nash being so-called contracted ' by the US Department of Defense to interpret a complex encryption of a communication intercepted from enemy countries - Nash 's seeming wariness began . But he did what he was told to do and the brilliance of the result of his work impressed the government . He then gets another assignment to search for patterns in magazines and newss that will connote a hidden message about any Soviet Plot . He was instructed to write a report and carefully and confidentially forward the report in a special mailbox

Thus began the erratic behavior of John Nash . He expresses unfounded fears of someone following him looking at him watching him . And worst , wanting to kill him , because the film illustrated that Nash was caught in a gunfire amongst the Russians

What John Nash was Suffering from

The story of John Nash pinpointed paranoid schizophrenia as the episodes he was undergoing , heightened especially after the assignment from the Department of Defense . He was delusional . It was pointed out that the real occurrences in John Nash episodes are auditory delusions The film elaborated the delusion further to be visual

Because of the intensity of what he is hearing and feeling and seeing about attempts on his life , his wife interred Nash in a psychiatric facility . The more he believed that the Soviets were after him . More so , as the film eventually unfolded , the Department of Defense assignment was a hallucination

It must be noted that the academic and intellectual burden on John Nash has been enormous . He is brilliantly gifted that he was awarded the Carnegie Prize for mathematics when he enrolled for graduate studies in Princeton University . He was so consumed and confounded from the very onset to create a most original , compelling idea for his thesis Eventually , he successful developed governing dynamics as a theory in mathematical economics . What he went thru to achieve the brilliance of his was encompassing . After Princeton , John Nash embarked on a greater responsibility when he accepted a teaching stint in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , in the subject of Calculus

The rigors of his responsibilities that John Nash really took to profound depth of his discipline , belief and being triggered an assumed intrusion into his life . There are indeed so many demands and expectations from him . He knows that so many people look up to him and awaits nothing but the best from him . And...