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.
JOHN FORBES NASHI 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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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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In a dream it’s typical not to be rational.
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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering.
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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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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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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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It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.
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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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Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.
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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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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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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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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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I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
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