I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton.
JOHN FORBES NASHAs you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.
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But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition… Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.
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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 never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.
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Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation.
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Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.
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It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.
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Thus I have hopes of being able to achieve something of value through my current studies or with any new ideas that come in the future.
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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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There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
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I later spent… five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.
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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 would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I’m not in the position.
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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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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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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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