Beautiful Minds
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jazzy_daveJust finished watching the film A Beautiful Mind on Sky Movies based on the mathematician John Nash whom tragically died with his wife in cat accident in the taxi they were riding in from Newark Airport. The taxi driver lost control of his vehicle at the New Jersey Turnpike and eventually hit a guard rail. Both John and his wife were ejected from the car on impact.
The film itself is a wonderful piece of drama , heatrendering so at times.
His work in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations have provided insight into the factors that govern chance and events inside complex systems in daily life.
His theories are used in economics, computing, evolutionary biology, artificial intelligence, accounting, computer science (minimax algorithm which is based on Nash Equilibrium), games of skill, politics and military theory. Serving as a Senior Research Mathematician at Princeton University during the latter part of his life, he shared the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with game theorists Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi. In 2015, he was awarded the Abel Prize for his work on nonlinear partial differential equations.
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 illness and recovery was the basis for the biographical book by Sylvia Nasar and the subsequent film.
The previous night we watched the biopic on the artist Margaret Keane, "Big Eyes" who married Walter Keane , in which her artwork the cad
markets them as his own work. In the 1950s and 1960s the portraits become phenomenally successful, and earn the couple a fortune. But Margaret is upset that she is lying and that Walter is taking her credit. She catches Walter in more lies. He becomes drunk and abusive, and she divorces him. On a radio interview, Margaret reveals that she and not Walter had been drawing the portraits. Walter accuses her of lying, she sues him for slander, and the judge asks each of them to demonstrate that they can draw a large-eye portrait.
Two fine films.
The film itself is a wonderful piece of drama , heatrendering so at times.
His work in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations have provided insight into the factors that govern chance and events inside complex systems in daily life.
His theories are used in economics, computing, evolutionary biology, artificial intelligence, accounting, computer science (minimax algorithm which is based on Nash Equilibrium), games of skill, politics and military theory. Serving as a Senior Research Mathematician at Princeton University during the latter part of his life, he shared the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with game theorists Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi. In 2015, he was awarded the Abel Prize for his work on nonlinear partial differential equations.
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 illness and recovery was the basis for the biographical book by Sylvia Nasar and the subsequent film.
The previous night we watched the biopic on the artist Margaret Keane, "Big Eyes" who married Walter Keane , in which her artwork the cad
markets them as his own work. In the 1950s and 1960s the portraits become phenomenally successful, and earn the couple a fortune. But Margaret is upset that she is lying and that Walter is taking her credit. She catches Walter in more lies. He becomes drunk and abusive, and she divorces him. On a radio interview, Margaret reveals that she and not Walter had been drawing the portraits. Walter accuses her of lying, she sues him for slander, and the judge asks each of them to demonstrate that they can draw a large-eye portrait.
Two fine films.
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