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John Bates Clark medal for economics,
369

Clark University,
59

C. L. E. Moore instructorships,
132
,
135
,
139
,
142
,
157
,
160
,
162

Clozapine,
329

Clozaril,
384

Coase, Ronald,
364
,
375
–76

Cocteau, Jean,
310
–11

Cohen, Paul J.,
155
,
160
,
215
–16,
230
,
236
–38,
240
,
241
,
259
,
349

Nash’s McLean commitment and,
253
,
257

and onset of Nash’s schizophrenia,
242
–243,
250
,
251

College de France,
236
,
265
,
285

1962 conference at,
300
–301

Communist Party (Great Britain),
110

Communist Party (U.S.),
135
,
152
–54

competitive equilibrium,
108

Compleat Strategyst, The
(Williams),
83

complex analysis,
130

complex variables, theory of,
67

Compton, Karl,
153

Compton’s Pictured Encyclopedia,
32

computer theory,
56
,
65
,
82

Con Edison,
343
,
344

continuity theorem,
219
–20,
225

continuous geometry,
81

Conway, John,
158

Courant, Richard,
210
,
216
,
219

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
216
–17,
223
,
224

Cournot, Antoine-Augustin,
14

Cox, Edward,
278

creativity, schizophrenia and,
15
–16

cryptography,
55
–56

cybernetics,
55
,
135

Cyert, Richard,
40

Cziffra, Peter,
334

Dagens Nyheter,
371

Dahmen, Erik,
368

Dalkey, N.,
117

Danskin, John,
280
,
282
,
284
,
296
,
301
,
303

Eleanor Stier’s complaints to,
296

at game-theory conference,
313

Nash’s behavior described by,
286
–87

Nash’s job search and,
283
,
284

Nash’s Trenton State hospitalization and,
290
–91,
292

Danskin, Odette Larde,
212
,
284
,
287
,
296
,
303
,
342

Danskin’s marriage to,
283

Nashes’ European stay and,
270
,
273
,
276
,
277
,
279
,
280

Dasgupta, Partha,
362

Davies, John D.,
51
,
56

Davis, Garry,
271
,
282

Davis, Joyce,
195
,
196
,
197
,
198
,
199
,
200
,
202
,
211
,
283
,
343

Davis, Martin,
67
–68

Davis, Meyer,
271

De Giorgi, Ennio,
219
–20,
224
,
225

Dejarnette State Sanitarium,
331

Delusion
(Glass),
335

de Rham, Georges,
101

Descartes, Rene,
15
,
35
,
51

Dewey, Thomas E.,
49
,
62

Dickason, H. L.,
124

Dickinson, Emily,
323

Dictionary of Scientific Biography
(Gillespie, ed.),
337

DiMaggio, Joe,
192

Diophantine equations,
45
,
334

Dirichlet, Peter Gustave Lejeune,
141

Dix, Dorothea,
289

Dixit, Avinash,
97
,
375
,
385

Doherty, Robert,
40
–41

Dostoevsky, Fyodor,
18

Douglas Aircraft,
106
,
111
,
113

Dresher, Melvin,
115
,
119
,
150

Dr. Strangelove,
80
,
105

Duchane, Emma,
190
,
196
,
200
–201,
202
,
223

Alicia Nash’s apartment with,
262

Nash’s interest in,
317

Nash’s McLean commitment and,
255
,
256
,
257

and onset of Nash’s schizophrenia,
240
,
242
,
250
,
251

Dudey, Marc,
350

duels, theory of,
121

Duffin, Richard,
41
,
44
–45,
46

Duke Journal of Mathematics,
318

Dynamics of Creation, The
(Storr),
15

Dyson, Freeman,
20
,
21
,
221

Econometrica,
91
,
120

Econometric Society,
20

Nash’s fellowship in,
354
–55

economics:

bargaining and,
88
–91,
120
,
129
,
149
–151,
360

see also
game theory; Nobel Prize in economics

Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro,
88
,
89

Ehrlich, Phillip,
287

Eilenberg, Samuel,
68

Einstein, Albert,
12
,
13
,
15
,
19
,
41
,
46
,
50
,
63
,
79
,
84
,
87
,
118
,
216
,
271
,
308
,
380

adolescence of,
35

Davis supported by,
271

and general theory of relativity,
52
,
70
,
86
,
231
,
380

on God,
66

go played by,
75

Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle critiqued by,
221

on intellectual isolation,
59

on Kaluza’s theory,
94

liberal views of,
14

Nash’s meeting with,
70
–71,
94
,
382

nuclear warning of,
56

on Princeton,
49
,
50
–51

recruited to IAS,
54
–55

relativity papers of,
52
,
70
,
86

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

Swiss citizenship of,
272

Eisenhart, Luthor,
53
,
388

Eisenhower, Dwight D.,
110
,
111
,
140
,
185
,
217

elections of 1948,
49
,
62

elections of 1952,
140

electroshock,
293

Eliot, T. S.,
98

El Salvador,
191

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

Emery, Richard,
222
,
239
–40

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics,
297

entropy,
224

Epstein, Samuel,
254
–55

Erdos, Paul,
346

ergodic theorem,
81

Erlenmeyer-Kimling, Nikki,
188

Esau,
327

Esmiol, Pattison,
314
–15,
319
,
321

Estermann, Immanuel,
41

Euclid,
35
,
230

Euler, Leonhard,
230

Euripides,
94

exotic spheres,
203

Farinholt, Larkin,
280

Faulkner, James,
265

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),
153
,
154
,
249
,
281

Federal Communications Commission (FCC),
374
,
376
–78

Federer, Herbert,
161

Feenberg, Daniel,
336
,
350

Feldt, Kjell Olof,
368

Feller, William,
129
,
285

Fellows, Benjamin Pierce,
135

Fermat, Pierre de,
35
,
51

Fermat’s Last Theorem,
203
,
386

Fermat’s Theorem,
35

fiber bundles,
64

Fields, Kenneth,
345
,
346
,
351

Fields Medal,
20
,
224
,
236
,
333
,
369

description of,
225
–26

1958,
234

1962,
232
,
365

1966,
279

selection process for,
225

Fine, Henry Burchard,
52
–53

first strike,
121

Fisher, Eric,
361

Fitzgerald, F. Scott,
49

Flatto, Leopold “Poldy,”
144
,
159
,
163

Flexner, Abraham,
54

Flood, Merrill,
119
,
121
–22,
150
,
303

Floyd Ward dancing school,
33

fluid dynamics,
294
,
297

Fogel, Robert,
363

Forrester, Amasa,
203
–6,
321

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