Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.
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 had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton.
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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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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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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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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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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 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 know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift.
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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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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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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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It’s better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction.
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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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There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
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