The Story Behind ‘A Beautiful Mind’
A Beautiful Mind, the Oscar-winning film starring Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly, is airing on TNT tomorrow night. The story portrays the life of real-life mathematical genius, John Forbes Nash.
John Forbes Nash Jr. [is] a mathmatical prodigy able to solve problems that baffled the greatest of minds. He overcame years of suffering through schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize.
[Nash] made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his tragedy, and finally – late in life – received the Nobel Prize.
[While] at Princeton University, Nash struggles to make a worthwhile contribution to serve as his legacy to the world of mathematics. He finally makes a revolutionary breakthrough that will eventually earn him the Nobel Prize. After graduate school he turns to teaching, becoming romantically involved with his student Alicia. Meanwhile the government asks his help with breaking Soviet codes, which soon gets him involved in a terrifying conspiracy plot. Nash grows more and more paranoid until a discovery that turns his entire world upside down. Now it is only with Alicia’s help that he will be able to recover his mental strength and regain his status as the great mathematician we know him as today.
John Nash was born in 1928 and is still alive today. According to campus legend, Nash became “The Phantom of Fine Hall,” Princeton’s mathematics center, known as a shadowy figure who would scribble arcane equations on blackboards in the middle of the night. A Beautiful Mind airs Sunday, December 2, at 8:00 p.m. and again at 10:15 p.m. on TNT.
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