I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I’m not in the position.
JOHN FORBES NASHHowever 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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As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.
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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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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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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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It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.
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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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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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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 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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This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.
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I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton.
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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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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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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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