I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton.
JOHN FORBES NASHStatistically, 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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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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I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
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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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I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I’m not in the position.
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I 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.
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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 know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift.
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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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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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This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.
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There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
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Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a ‘normal’ person.
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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering.
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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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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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