1940s High School Yearbook with JOHN NASH ~ Game Theory ~ A Beautiful Mind ++++

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1940's High School Annual
with great photographs and text showing the students, faculty, activities, graphics, literature, pictures of school and surrounding. Seniors are individually photographed with list of clubs and accomplishments. Included in the sophomore class is future celebrated mathematician John Nash. Great photos and period design, from a very small school with 63 graduates.
John Nash
was an American
mathematician
who made fundamental contributions to game theory
, differential geometry
, and the study of
partial differential equations.
Nash's work has provided insight into the factors that govern chance and decision-making inside complex systems
found in everyday life.
His theories are widely used in
market economics
. Serving as a
Senior Research Mathematician at Princeton University
during the later part of his life, he was given the 1994
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
.
In 2015, he also shared the
Abel Prize
with
Louis NIrenberg
for his work on nonlinear
partial differential equations, the only one to ever win both awards
.
In 1959, Nash began showing clear signs of mental illness, and spent several years at psychiatric hospitals being treated for paranoid schizophrenia
. After 1970, his condition slowly improved, allowing him to return to academic work by the mid-1980s.
His struggles with his illness and his recovery became the basis for Sylvia Nasar's
biography,
A Beautiful Mind
, as well as a film of the same name starr
ing Russell Crowe. Nash appears in this yearbook as a sophomore in class. He might be elsewhere as group photos are otherwise uncaptioned.
Very Good condition
softcover/leatherette issue with tight binding and text and clean pages, with no must or mildew, and one teacher picture cleanly excised. Solid.
Great rarity giving a true historic look at one of America's great minds. Just waiting for a good home.
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