This Blogger’s brother was keenly interested in things just beyond the known senses. Predictably he was interested in Genius-Madman-Genius-Madman, Genius Emeritus John Nash of Princeton University.
On May 23, 2015, John Nash and his wife/ex-wife/wife Alicia died in a car crash on the way back to their home in New Jersey after receiving accolades in Sweden. They were riding in a taxi.
John Forbes Nash was a young mathematical genius who solved the Manifold Problem, then went nuts, or was nuts when he solved the problem.
Alicia Nash was the sweet girl who married the genius.
Then it was discovered that John was having auditory hallucinations, he was hearing voices.
All the while, between hearing voices, the mathematical genius in the 1950s, knocked up another woman, and abandoned her, and the child. It was assumed the Voices made him do it.
In 1959, he went to a fancy shindig, wearing a diaper, and sash; he sat on Alicia’s lap, guzzling milk from a bottle. The Princeton nabobs declared him eccentric.
They viewed his eccentricity as the price a brilliant man had to pay for developing the GAME THEORY.
A few days later he turned down a promotion to a highly desired position, declaring that he could not assume the academic position because the people of Antarctica, by acclamation, had proclaimed him EMPEROR OF ANTARCTICA.
The Princeton nabobs declared him nuts, by the logic that only a nut would turn down a promotion at Princeton.
Then shipped him off to the loony bin, where he was subjected to electro-shock therapy, and insulin comas.
Alicia, not nuts, left him.
Released from the loony bin, he went home to his mother. When she passed away, he was homeless.
So the “cured” but broken genius went to Alicia’s doorstep and begged to be taken in.
AND SHE DID.
While he was nuts, John Nash did a lot of crazy things; during an interview, Nash said that he did those crazy thing because voices coming through the television variety program THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW had told him to do them.
Nash said he was given insights, such as :: “Mao Tse-Tung’s Bar Mitzvah was 13 years, 13 months and 13 days after Brezhnev’s circumcision….JOHN NASH”
Well that did not impress my strange brother, for he had reached the conclusion- who hadn’t heard nutty voices while listening to the ED SULLIVAN SHOW?
But then the sane Nash said something in that interview which bothered and gnawed at my brother until the day he died.
The interviewer asked Nash: Did he put up any rational resistance to the nutty voices from the ED SULLIVAN SHOW?
Nash said NO for those same voices had given him the answers to the Manifold Question and the foundation of the Game Theory. The nutty voices had solved the Manifold Problem, and formulated the Game Theory, rationally why would anyone not go to a gala dressed in a diaper if they asked him to?
John Nash was 86 when he died with Alicia, and happy.
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