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Nash’s job search and,
132

as sounding board for Nash,
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–72

Stein, Eli,
224
,
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,
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,
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,
233
,
237

Stelazine,
315
,
329

Stern, Otto,
41

Sternberg, Shlomo,
216

Stevenson, Adlai,
140

Stier, Eleanor,
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–79,
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,
201
,
208
,
296
,
327
–28

Alicia Larde’s meeting with,
201
–2

background of,
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Bricker and,
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,
178
,
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,
182
,
206
–7

John Charles Nash’s stay with,
345

Nash confronted by,
201

Nash’s parents and,
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,
208
,
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,
210

Nash’s recent meeting with,
387

Nash’s renewed contact with,
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–16

Nash’s support of,
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,
282
,
330
–31

pregnancy of,
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–76

support demanded by,
206
–7

Stier, John David (son),
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–79,
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,
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–210,
282
,
321
,
326

brief reconciliation with,
344
,
345

college plans of,
344

John Charles Nash’s first meeting with,
344

John Charles Nash’s stay with,
345

recent reconciliation with,
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–87

renewed contact with,
315
–16

Stiglitz, Joseph,
375

Stirling’s formula,
350

Stone, Marshall,
55

Storr, Anthony,
15
,
18

Strategic Air Command (SAC),
121

Stratton, Julius,
244

Struik, Dirk,
152

Stuyvesant High School,
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,
237

Suez crisis,
217

Sullivan, Harry Stack,
259

Summers, Lawrence,
375

surreal numbers,
158

Surviving Schizophrenia
(Torrey),
324

Svenson, Lars,
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,
367

Synge, Hutchie,
281
–82

Synge, John L.,
41
,
44
,
46
,
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,
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–282

Synge, John Millington,
41

Szasz, Thomas,
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Szilard, Leo,
56

Tate, John,
64
,
239
,
242
,
311

Tate, Karin,
see
Artin, Karin (Tate)

Taylor, Sir Hugh,
62
,
73

Tech, The,
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,
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Teller, Edward,
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tensor calculus,
380

Texas Agricultural & Mechanical

University,
26
–27

Théorie des Fonctions
(Borel),
81

Théorie des Nombres
(Legendre),
230

Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, The
(von Neumann and Morgenstern),
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,
85
,
86
,
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,
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,
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,
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–97,
116
,
363

Thinking Strategically
(Dixit and Nalebuff),
97
,
375

This Side of Paradise
(Fitzgerald),
49

Thorn, René,
226

Thompson, F. B.,
117

Thompson, John,
236

Thorazine,
250
,
258
,
260
,
306
,
307

Thorson, Ervin,
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–71,
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,
204

Thurmer family,
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Time,
32

Tobin, James,
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Tobin, Joseph,
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topology,
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,
56
,
64
,
68
,
69

algebraic,
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,
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see also
manifolds, algebraic

Torrey, E. Fuller,
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Trenton State Hospital,
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,
288
–94,
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,
306
,
344
,
383

Trial, The
(Kafka),
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Trotter, Hale,
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,
337
,
338
,
350
,
384

Troutman, Nelda,
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Truesdell, Charlotte,
48

Truesdell, Clifford Ambrose,
47

Truman, Harry S.,
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,
62
,
109
,
123
,
185

Tsuang, Min,
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–53

Tucker, Albert,
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,
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,
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–86,
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,
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,
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Alicia Nash’s pregnancy announced to,
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Carnegie mathematics impressive to,
42

Carrier Clinic visits of,
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description of,
95

game theory and,
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–65,
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,
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,
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,
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,
362

Michigan position arranged by,
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Nash defended by,
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,
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,
236

as Nash’s advisor,
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,
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–96

Nash’s draft deferment and,
125
,
202

Nash’s job search and,
132

ONR grant of,
126

on Shapley,
103

as straitlaced,
64

Tukey, John,
62
,
76

turbulence,
218
–19

Turing, Alan,
56
,
107
,
188
,
189

Tversky, Amos,
373

Twilight Zone,
301

“Two Person Cooperative Games” (Nash),
120

two-person zero-sum games,
14
,
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,
95
,
96
,
115
,
116
,
119

“Ueber die Anzahl der primzahlen unter einergegebenen Grosse”
(Riemann),
230

Uitti, Karl,
297
–98,
310

Ulam, Stanislaw,
217

unified field theory,
70

United Mine Workers (UMW),
28

United. Nations,
192
,
248
–49

United Nations High Commission for Refugees,
274

universe, nonexpanding,
380
,
382

Valleius,
94

Vanzetti, Bartolomeo,
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Vasquez, Al,
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,
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–45,
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,
264
,
299
,
314

on Nash’s decline,
319
,
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on Nash’s improvement,
317

Nash’s 1959–60 European stay and,
281
,
282

Vaught, Robert,
205

Veblen, May,
49

Veblen, Oswald,
49
,
50
,
53
,
54
,
56

Veblen, Thorstein,
15
,
50

Villard, Henry S.,
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Viner, Jacob,
86

Voltaire,
273

von Neumann, John,
12
,
19
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28
,
45
,
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50
,
52
,
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,
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,
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,
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background of,
81

death of,
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on decline of mathematical powers,
228

description of,
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–82

Dr. Strangelove
and,
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,
105

game theory and,
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–14,
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–87,
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–94,
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–18,
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hydrogen bomb and,
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Kriegspiel played by,
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Manhattan Project and,
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,
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Nash’s meeting with,
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–94

at RAND,
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–18,
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recruited to Princeton,
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–54

on Shapley,
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John von Neumann Theory Prize,
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–39,
354

Wachtman, Jack,
43

Waggoner, Ray,
303

Walker, Nelson,
37

Wallace, A. D.,
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Wallace, Henry,
62

Wallenberg family,
368

Walter, John,
205

Wan, Henry,
265

Warhol, Andy,
41

Warsh, David,
366

Washington, University of,
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–5

Martha Washington College,
27

Washnitzer, Gerard,
64

Way Ministry,
343

Weibull, Jorgen,
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,
360
–61,
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,
363

at Nobel ceremonies,
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Nobel deliberations and,
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,
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Weil, Andre,
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Weinberger, Hans,
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,
43
,
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–45

Weinstein, Alexander,
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Weinstein, Tilla,
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