John Nash is a well-known mathematician and economist, and a professor of mathematics at Princeton University, focusing on game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations. Unfortunately for him, just as his amazing mathematical discoveries began to gain international fame, he suffered from schizophrenia.
This trouble is more than 30 years, John Nash has hallucinations, auditory hallucinations and fantasies. He was often led by hallucinations and unconsciously gave lectures at Princeton University, unable to distinguish the truth from the false in his life.
John Nash was afraid that others would laugh at him, so he hid at home and cried to his mother. The mother, a biologist, is full of confidence in him and said: "My child, in the Masai Mara National Park in Kenya, there is a strange phenomenon, there are lions in the east, but not in the west, but the ants are the same on both sides of the east and west. Yes, do you know why?"
John Nash shook his head and said he didn't know, and his mother said, "That's because there is a big rift valley in the middle, and the lion can't jump over it, but the ants can crawl along the big rift valley. , shuttle back and forth on both sides. My child, why do you have low self-esteem, what a tiny ant can do, a lion may not be able to do, have we lost our brains and hands and feet? Hold your head up and do what you like."
After listening to his mother's words, John Nash regained his confidence and stepped up his research while fighting the disease. He was awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics for his seminal contributions to the theory of equilibrium analysis of non-cooperative games, which had a major impact on game theory and economics. His legendary experience was also made into the film "A Beautiful Mind", which won many awards such as the 74th Academy Awards and the 59th American Golden Globe Awards.
