Quotes of John Nash - somelinesforyou

“ I later spent… five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release. ”

- John Nash

“ By the time I was a student in high school… I remember succeeding in proving the classic Fermat theorem about an integer multiplied by itself p times where p is a prime. ”

- John Nash

“ My beginning as a legally recognized individual occurred on June 13, 1928, in Bluefield, West Virginia, in the Bluefield Sanitarium, a hospital that no longer exists. ”

- John Nash

“ By the time I was a student in high school… I remember succeeding in proving the classic Fermat theorem about an integer multiplied by itself p times where p is a prime. ”

- John Nash

“ I later spent… five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release. ”

- John Nash

“ I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition… Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location. ”

- John Nash

“ I later spent… five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release. ”

- John Nash

“ I also did electrical and chemistry experiments at that time. At first, when asked in school to prepare an essay about my career, I prepared one about a career as an electrical engineer like my father. Later, when I actually entered Carnegie Tech. in Pittsburgh, I entered as a student with the major of chemical engineering. ”

- John Nash

“ My father, for whom I was named, was an electrical engineer and had come to Bluefield to work for the electrical utility company there which was and is the Appalachian Electric Power Company. He was a veteran of WW1 and had served in France as a lieutenant in the supply services. ”

- John Nash

“ Bluefield, a small city in a comparatively remote geographical location in the Appalachians, was not a community of scholars or of high technology. ”

- John Nash

“ I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research. ”

- John Nash

“ I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research. ”

- John Nash

“ I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research. ”

- John Nash

“ I also did electrical and chemistry experiments at that time. At first, when asked in school to prepare an essay about my career, I prepared one about a career as an electrical engineer like my father. Later, when I actually entered Carnegie Tech. in Pittsburgh, I entered as a student with the major of chemical engineering. ”

- John Nash

“ One aspect of this is that rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos. ”

- John Nash

“ One aspect of this is that rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos. ”

- John Nash

“ By the time I was a student in high school… I remember succeeding in proving the classic Fermat theorem about an integer multiplied by itself p times where p is a prime. ”

- John Nash

“ One aspect of this is that rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos. ”

- John Nash

“ I also did electrical and chemistry experiments at that time. At first, when asked in school to prepare an essay about my career, I prepared one about a career as an electrical engineer like my father. Later, when I actually entered Carnegie Tech. in Pittsburgh, I entered as a student with the major of chemical engineering. ”

- John Nash

“ I also did electrical and chemistry experiments at that time. At first, when asked in school to prepare an essay about my career, I prepared one about a career as an electrical engineer like my father. Later, when I actually entered Carnegie Tech. in Pittsburgh, I entered as a student with the major of chemical engineering. ”

- John Nash

“ Compliance with these regulations maintain the town's eligibility for federal grants and reimbursements under any federally declared emergency or disaster. ”

- John Nash

“ I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health. ”

- John Nash

“ By the time I was a student in high school… I remember succeeding in proving the classic Fermat theorem about an integer multiplied by itself p times where p is a prime. ”

- John Nash

“ We're inching closer and closer to the cap as we go into the future, but we're still not under the cap. But we're no longer in that situation where we're so far over that you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel. ”

- John Nash

“ I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research. ”

- John Nash

“ So as it happened, as soon as I heard in conversation at M.I.T. about the question of the embeddability being open, I began to study it. The first break led to a curious result about the embeddability being realizable in surprisingly low-dimensional ambient spaces provided that one would accept that the embedding would have only limited smoothness… ”

- John Nash

“ I studied mathematics fairly broadly and I was fortunate enough… also to make a nice discovery relating to manifolds and real algebraic varieties. So I was prepared actually for the possibility that the game theory work would not be regarded as acceptable as a thesis in the mathematics department and then that I could realize the objective of a Ph… ”

- John Nash

“ I also did electrical and chemistry experiments at that time. At first, when asked in school to prepare an essay about my career, I prepared one about a career as an electrical engineer like my father. Later, when I actually entered Carnegie Tech. in Pittsburgh, I entered as a student with the major of chemical engineering. ”

- John Nash

“ The mathematics faculty were encouraging me to shift into mathematics as my major and explaining to me that it was not almost impossible to make a good career in America as a mathematician. So I… became officially a student of mathematics. And in the end I had learned and progressed so much in mathematics that they gave me an M… ”

- John Nash

“ There's no question there was a lot of talent there. From 1 through 15 we had as much or more as anyone in the league. We were winning in the vicinity of 50 games, had the highest payroll. But that wasn't producing anything better than first-round elimination in the playoffs, so the decision was made to go in a different direction. ”

- John Nash
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