John Forbes Nash: Beautiful Mind

A beautiful mind is a great way to describe John Nash because he was a brilliant person who suffered and fought through Schizophrenia. Nash was born on June 13, 1928, in Bluefield, West Virginia. His father was an electrical engineer for the Appalachian Electric Power Company. His mother, name was Virginia Martin and she had been a schoolteacher before she married. Nash had a younger sister, Martha, born November 16, 1930. Nash attended kindergarten and public school. Nash's parents worked hard to create a challenging learning program for their son's education, and arranged for him to take advanced mathematics courses at a local community college during his final year of high school. Nash attended Carnegie Mellon University with a full scholarship, and the George Westinghouse, which was a scientific/mathematic competition that helped students earn scholarship money. He initially majored in Chemical Engineering. He switched to Chemistry, and eventually to Mathematics. After graduating in 1948 with Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in mathematics, he received a scholarship to Princeton University where he pursued his graduate studies in Mathematics. At Princeton he worked on his equilibrium theory. John Nash had a bright future ahead of him at Princeton but he did go through some devastating problem which created obstacles, like his mental illness, but he was well recognized and award for his outstanding work.
John Nash was fighting his disease starting his time at Princeton. He began to show signs of extreme paranoia and his wife later described his behavior as erratic, because he began speaking of characters like Charles Herman and William Parcher who were putting him in danger. Nash seemed to believe that all men who wore red ties were part of a communist conspiracy against him. He was admitted to the McLean Hospital, April–May 1959, where he was diagnosed with Schizophrenia. The illness often includes the fact of seeing things that become part