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algebraic topology,
59
,
68

algebraic varieties,
131
,
309

Allen, Beth,
354
,
355

Amadur, Izzy,
153

Amadur, Ted,
153

Ambrose, Warren,
143
,
155
–56,
159
,
162
,
163
,
203
,
282

American Journal of Mathematics,
226
–27

American Mathematical Society (AMS),
38
,
226
,
245
–46,
303

Amherst College,
344
,
387

analysis:

complex,
130

at Princeton,
64

“Analyticity of Solutions of Implicit Function Problems with Analytic Data” (Nash),
317
–18

Ankeny, Barbara,
202

Ankeny, Nesmith,
202

Annals of Mathematics,
58
,
72
,
131
,
161
,
318

antipsychotics,
329
,
353

anti-Semitism,
58
,
135
,
136
,
137
,
146
,
216

Anti-Submarine Warfare Operations Evaluation Group (ASWOEG),
116

Appalachian Power Company,
27
,
33

Arafat, Yasir,
357

Archimedes,
94

Aristophanes,
94

Aristotle,
94
,
275

Army, U.S.,
134

Arnold, Henry “Hap,”
106

Arrow, Kenneth:

Nobel awarded to,
107
,
358
,
360

at RAND,
107
–8,
109
,
113
,
115
,
117
,
118

artificial intelligence,
102

Artin, Emil,
19
,
64
,
73
,
159
,
210
,
229
,
239
,
281

Nash opposed by,
73
–74,
132

Artin, Karin (Tate),
73
,
239
,
242

Artin, Michael,
129
,
131
,
281

Artin, Natasha,
210

Art of the Fugue,
The (Bach),
113

Asimov, Isaac,
105

Assadi, Amir,
337
–38,
343

ASWOEG (Anti-Submarine Warfare Operations Evaluation Group),
116

Atomic Energy Commission (AEC),
74
,
80
,
107
,
110
,
122
,
134
,
216

auctions,
374
–78

Augenstein, Bruno,
107

Aumann, Robert,
140
,
156
,
354

in Nobel deliberations,
362
,
363

Australia,
377

Bach, Johann Sebastian,
113

Bailey, Anna,
343

Balzac, Honoré de,
325

Bamberger family,
54

Bank of Sweden,
358
,
368

Baptist Standard,
26

bargaining,
88
–91,
129
,
149
–51

“Bargaining Problem, The” (Nash),
88
,
120
,
360

BASIC,
71

Baumecker, Peter,
289
–90,
292
,
294

Baumol, William,
102

Baylor College,
26

Beckenback, Alice,
299

Bell, E. T.,
34
,
35
,
229
,
230
–31,
232

Bell Jar, The
(Plath),
211

Bellman, Richard,
110
,
185

Berge, Claude,
243

Bers, Lipman,
246

Best, Richard,
184
,
185
–86,
189

Bewley, Truman,
354
,
355

Binmore, Kenneth,
355

bipolar disorder (manic depressive illness),
18
,
258
,
318
–19

Birkhoff, G. D.,
53
,
55
,
103
,
136

Blackwell, David,
117

Blake, William,
13

Bletchley Park,
56
,
107

Bleuler, Eugen,
17

Bleuler, Manfred,
352

Bluefield, West Va., description of,
28

Bluefield College,
35
,
39

Bluefield Daily Telegraph,
33
,
38

Bluefield Supply,
33

Bôcher Prize,
138
,
226
–27,
237
,
243

Bochner, Salomon,
64
,
71
,
128
,
132

Boeing,
342
–43

Bohnenblust, H. Frederic,
103
,
117

Bohr, Harald,
49
,
50

Bohr, Niels,
50
,
56
,
70

Bombieri, Enrico,
20
–21,
229
,
230
,
388

Borel, Armand,
264
,
272
,
301
,
313

as
Annals of Mathematics
editor,
318

Carrier Clinic visits of,
307

IAS appointments arranged by,
296
,
308

Nashes’ socializing with,
299
,
380
,
386

Nash recommended by,
321

on Nash’s embedding theorem,
161
–62

Nash’s nonsensical calls to,
286

Borel, Emile,
81

Borel, Gaby,
264
,
299
,
344
,
380
,
386

Borsuk, Karol,
72

Borsuk conjecture,
72

Bott, Raoul,
40
,
41
,
203
,
240

Boy Scouts,
33

Bradley, Bernard E.,
261

Brandeis University,
314
–22

Brauer, Fred,
146

Brenner, Joseph,
239
,
258

Brezhnev, Leonid,
332

Bricker, Jacob Leon,
144
,
223
,
321

Alicia Larde and,
200
–201

Eleanor Stier and,
177
,
178
,
181
,
182
,
206
–7

Nash’s delusions about,
326

Nash’s relationship with,
180
–83,
204
,
206
–7

bridge,
142

Brieskorn, Egbert,
318

Brod, Max,
278

Brode, Wallace,
279

Bronx High School,
142

Brouwer’s fixed point theorem,
45
,
128
,
362

Browder, Earl,
153

Browder, Eva,
233
–34,
380

Browder, Felix,
73
,
142
,
154
,
157
,
229
,
244
,
246
–47

Nashes’ British trip and,
233
–34

Nashes’ socializing with,
380
,
386

on Nash’s defection effort,
281

Nash’s McLean commitment and,
257

Browder, William,
309
,
335

Brown, Douglas,
126
,
310
,
312

Brownian motion,
55

Buchanan, James,
364

Buchwald, Art,
271

Bulletin de la Société Mathématique de
France,
298

Bunker Hill Community College,
344

Burr, Stefan,
299

Bush, Vannevar,
137

Calabi, Eugenio,
64
,
68
,
72
,
232
,
244
–45

Calabi, Giuliana,
245

calculus, tensor,
380

California Institute of Technology,
375

Camus, Albert,
271

Cantorian set theory,
52

Cappell, Sylvain,
99

Carl XVI Gustav, king of Sweden,
379
–80

Carleson, Lennart,
223
–24,
226
,
227

Carnegie Institute of Technology,
35
,
39
–45,
129
,
362

description of,
40

Carrier Clinic,
304
,
305
–8,
312
–13,
43
,
344

Cartan, Elie-Joseph,
157

Cartwright, Mary,
57

Casals, Pablo,
193

Castle, The
(Kafka),
273
,
278

Cauchy problem,
297
–98

Cauvin, Jean-Pierre,
284
,
298
,
308

Cauvin, Louisa,
308

Central Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Science in Memory of Alfred Nobel,
see
Nobel Prize in economics

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),
134

Centre de la Recherches Nationale Scientifiques,
298

Chamberlain, Gary,
354

Charles, Ray,
255

Chern, Shiing-shen,
72
,
236
,
279

Chiang Kai-shek,
153

Chicago, University of,
45
,
132
,
236
,
237
,
244

China,
153

Choate, Hall & Steward,
153

Chung, Kai Lai,
66

Church, Alonzo,
63
,
64
,
93

CIA (Central Intelligence Agency),
134

City College,
142
,
144
,
180

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