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Re: Query: John Nash and Pale Fire (fwd)
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From: "Jerry Friedman, Northern N. M. Community College"
<jfriedman@nnm.cc.nm.us>
>From: Cary Henson <cphenson@execpc.com>
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>I have been reading a fascinating biography of the
>mathematician John Nash and am struck by certain
>parallels to Kinbote.
>
>Nash's competetive game theory won him a Nobel Prize
>in Economics in 1994, but only after he had a 30-year
>bout with paranoid schizophrenia.
In case it's not clear, Nash recovered. I
wonder how Kinbote would have felt and what he would
have done if he had recovered.
...
Jerry Friedman
<jfriedman@nnm.cc.nm.us>
>From: Cary Henson <cphenson@execpc.com>
>
>I have been reading a fascinating biography of the
>mathematician John Nash and am struck by certain
>parallels to Kinbote.
>
>Nash's competetive game theory won him a Nobel Prize
>in Economics in 1994, but only after he had a 30-year
>bout with paranoid schizophrenia.
In case it's not clear, Nash recovered. I
wonder how Kinbote would have felt and what he would
have done if he had recovered.
...
Jerry Friedman