Authors: Sylvia Nasar
Tags: #Biography & Autobiography, #Mathematics, #Science, #Azizex666, #General
Nash’s job search and,
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as sounding board for Nash,
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Stern, Otto,
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Sternberg, Shlomo,
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Stevenson, Adlai,
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Alicia Larde’s meeting with,
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background of,
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John Charles Nash’s stay with,
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Nash confronted by,
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Nash’s recent meeting with,
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Nash’s renewed contact with,
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pregnancy of,
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support demanded by,
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college plans of,
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John Charles Nash’s first meeting with,
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John Charles Nash’s stay with,
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recent reconciliation with,
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–87
renewed contact with,
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–16
Stiglitz, Joseph,
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Stirling’s formula,
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Stone, Marshall,
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Strategic Air Command (SAC),
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Stratton, Julius,
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Struik, Dirk,
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Suez crisis,
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Sullivan, Harry Stack,
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Summers, Lawrence,
375
surreal numbers,
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Surviving Schizophrenia
(Torrey),
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Synge, Hutchie,
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Synge, John Millington,
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Szasz, Thomas,
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Szilard, Leo,
56
Tate, Karin,
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Artin, Karin (Tate)
Teller, Edward,
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tensor calculus,
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Texas Agricultural & Mechanical
University,
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–27
Théorie des Fonctions
(Borel),
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Théorie des Nombres
(Legendre),
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Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, The
(von Neumann and Morgenstern),
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This Side of Paradise
(Fitzgerald),
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Thorn, René,
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Thompson, F. B.,
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Thompson, John,
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Thurmer family,
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Time,
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Tobin, James,
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Tobin, Joseph,
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see also
manifolds, algebraic
Torrey, E. Fuller,
324
Trial, The
(Kafka),
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Troutman, Nelda,
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Truesdell, Charlotte,
48
Truesdell, Clifford Ambrose,
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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,
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Michigan position arranged by,
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Nash’s job search and,
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ONR grant of,
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on Shapley,
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as straitlaced,
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turbulence,
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Tversky, Amos,
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Twilight Zone,
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“Two Person Cooperative Games” (Nash),
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“Ueber die Anzahl der primzahlen unter einergegebenen Grosse”
(Riemann),
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Ulam, Stanislaw,
217
unified field theory,
70
United Mine Workers (UMW),
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United Nations High Commission for Refugees,
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Valleius,
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Vanzetti, Bartolomeo,
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on Nash’s improvement,
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Vaught, Robert,
205
Veblen, May,
49
Villard, Henry S.,
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Viner, Jacob,
86
Voltaire,
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background of,
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death of,
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on decline of mathematical powers,
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description of,
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game theory and,
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Kriegspiel played by,
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Nash’s meeting with,
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–94
recruited to Princeton,
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on Shapley,
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Wachtman, Jack,
43
Waggoner, Ray,
303
Walker, Nelson,
37
Wallace, A. D.,
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Wallace, Henry,
62
Wallenberg family,
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Walter, John,
205
Wan, Henry,
265
Warhol, Andy,
41
Warsh, David,
366
Washington, University of,
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Martha Washington College,
27
Washnitzer, Gerard,
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Way Ministry,
343
Weil, Andre,
236
Weinstein, Alexander,
41