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Ramanujan, Srinivasa,
12
,
45
,
60
–61

RAND Corporation,
72
,
100
,
103
,
104
–23,
124
,
147
–51,
321
,
363

description of,
105
–7,
111
–12

game theory and,
104
–5,
108
,
111
,
115
–122,
149
–51

location of,
108

Nash’s dismissal from,
184
–89

Nobel deliberations and,
366

practical jokes at,
111

“RAND Hymn, The” (Reynolds),
104

Randol, Burton,
286

Rappaport, Anatole,
303

rational conflict and cooperation, theory of,
13

Raymond, Sister,
193
–94

RCA (Radio Corporation of America),
283
,
341

Reboul, Mark,
332

Red Cross,
191

Reed-Solomon code,
144

Reidemeister group,
69

relativity,
45
,
56

general theory of,
52
,
70
,
86
,
380

special theory of,
51
–52,
70
,
86
,
231

Reynolds, Donald V.,
36
,
37

Reynolds, Malvina,
104

Ricardo, David,
88

Richardson, Gillian,
297

Rider College,
345
,
351

Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard,
12
,
129
,
157
,
230

Riemann Hypothesis,
19
,
20
,
138
,
229
–32,
236
,
238
,
241
,
243
,
277

Nash’s presentations on,
245
–46,
251

Riemannian manifolds, embedding of,
155
–63,
203
,
204
,
218
,
219
,
345

Rigby, Fred D.,
125
,
126

Risperadol,
384

Roberts, John,
376
,
377

Robinson, Julia,
38

Rockefeller, Nelson,
336

Rockefeller Foundation,
53
,
84

Rogers, Adrienne,
223

Rogers, Hartley,
76
,
223
,
241

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
56

Rose, Wickliffe,
53

Rosenberg, Ethel,
110
,
185

Rosenberg, Julius,
110
,
185

Rota, Gian-Carlo,
59
,
162
,
220
,
223
,
236

Nash’s McLean commitment and,
257

and onset of Nash’s schizophrenia,
241
,
251

Rota, Terry,
223

Roth, Al,
150
,
362

Roth, Klaus F.,
226

Rothschild, Michael,
374

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
273

Royal Swedish Academy of Arts and Letters,
357

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,
356
–373

secrecy of,
357

see also
Nobel Prize in economics

Rubinstein, Ariel,
354
–55,
360
,
362

Rudolf, Archduke,
191

Russell, Bertrand,
14
,
35
,
118

Russell, Henry Norris,
51

Russell, Lindsay,
172

Rutgers University,
346

Sabin, Betty,
195

SAC (Strategic Air Command),
121

Sacco, Nicola,
261

Sackel, Manfred,
293

St. Paul’s church,
302

Salazar, Antonio de Oliveira,
290

Samuelson, Paul A.,
55
,
86
,
265
,
375

on MIT,
133
,
134

on Nash’s parsimony,
232
–33

Nobel awarded to,
55
,
358
,
360

at RAND,
108
,
117

Santa Monica Evening Outlook,
108
,
184
,
187

Sarnak, Peter,
349

Sartre, Jean-Paul,
15
,
271

Sass, Louis A.,
18
,
295

Sayles, John,
28

Schell, Haskell,
250
,
251

Schelling, Thomas C,
111
,
115
–16,
122

in Nobel deliberations,
363
,
364

schizophrenia,
15
–19,
324

achievement impaired by,
318
–19

causes of onset of,
126
,
188

creativity and,
15
–16

as episodic illness,
345

“extreme contrariness” in,
271

genius and,
19

Glass on,
278

Haslam’s description of,
275

insensitivity to pain in,
328
–29

negative symptoms of,
328
,
352

studies on remission in,
351
–53

suicide and,
308
,
352
,
353

see also
Nash, John Charles Martin; Nash, John F., Jr.

Schläfli, Ludwig,
157

Schneider, Mark,
333

Schwartz, Jacob,
159
–60,
162
,
231

Scott, Frank L.,
302
,
306

Scott, T. H.,
124

Segal, Irving E.,
103

Selberg, Atle,
229
,
230
,
232
,
241
,
245
,
296
,
297
,
312

IAS membership arranged by,
308

visiting positions sought through,
309

Selten, Reinhard,
98
,
354
,
362
,
374

at 1961 conference,
297

Nobel deliberations on,
363
,
364
,
371
,
373

Serling, Rod,
301

Serre, Jean-Pierre,
312

set theory, axiomatization of,
81

Shapiro, Harold N.,
147
,
245
,
367

Shapley, Harlow,
39
,
100
,
152

Shapley, Lloyd S.,
39
,
99
–103,
112
,
113
,
117
,
119
,
120
,
122
,
152
,
208
,
321
,
388

in Econometric Society,
354

Nash’s arrest and,
187

on Nash’s illness,
299
–300

in Nobel deliberations,
363
,
364

remission noted by,
350

von Neumann prize arranged by,
338
–339,
354

Sheldon, Elizabeth,
27
–28

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,
273

Shelley, Percy Bysshe,
269

Sherman, Agnes,
284

Sherman, Michael,
284

Sherman Institute,
26

Shubik, Martin,
63
,
101
,
102
,
120
,
208
,
286

in Econometric Society,
354
,
355

Nobel deliberations and,
366

Siegel, Carl Ludwig,
226

Siegel, George,
43
,
45

Siegel, Robert,
42

Simon, Herbert,
108
,
117

Singer, Isadore M.,
142
,
144
–45,
162
,
203

Nash’s McLean commitment and,
260

singularities, canonical resolution of,
318

Slater, J. C,
222
–23

Sloan Fellowships,
202
,
236
,
280

Smith, Adam,
15
,
88
,
119
,
151
,
374
–75

Smith (Nash), Martha (grandmother),
26

Social Democratic Party (Sweden),
359
,
364
,
366

Sohlman, Michael,
357

Solomon, Gustave,
144
,
180

“So Long, Sucker,”
102

Solow, Robert,
134
,
232
,
233

Sophocles,
94

Soviet Union,
109
,
110
,
118
,
119
,
121

special theory of relativity,
51
–52,
70
,
86

Spencer, Donald,
93
,
129
–30,
131
,
132
,
141
,
285
,
291
,
295

Carrier Clinic visits of,
307

description of,
130

IAS appointment obtained through,
296

Michigan position arranged by,
303
,
304

Moore visited by,
341

Sputnik
106
,
222

Stahl, Ingemar,
362
,
364
–72

Stahl, Ingolf,
362

Stanton, Alfred H.,
259

Starr, Norton,
344

Stearns, A. Warren,
261
,
265

Steenrod, Norman,
64
,
68
,
69
,
92
,
93
,
96
,
129
,
131
,
137
,
204
,
229

Forrester and,
204

Kriegspiel played by,
76

Nash defended by,
73

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