It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.
JOHN FORBES NASHI would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.
More John Forbes Nash Quotes
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I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
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Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.
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Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than mere ideas.
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As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.
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I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life.
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I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I’m not in the position.
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The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month’s dress.
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I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton.
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To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.
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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.
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Statistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able through continued research efforts, to add much to his or her previous achievements.
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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering.
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However I am still making the effort and it is conceivable that with the gap period of about 25 years of partially deluded thinking providing a sort of vacation my situation may be atypical.
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Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person’s concept of his relation to the cosmos.
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