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.
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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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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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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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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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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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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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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Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person’s concept of his relation to the cosmos.
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Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.
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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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In a dream it’s typical not to be rational.
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There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
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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 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 have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life.
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I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton.
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