Imperfectly Perfect...... a good oxymoron to describe the movie I recently saw.....
Its about a person with extra ordinary features since child hood.It was quite apparent at a young age that he did not like working with other people, preferring to do things alone. He returned the social rejection of his classmates with practical jokes and intellectual superiority, believing their dances and sports to be a distraction from his experiments and studies.
A Beautiful Mind is about John Forbes Nash, Jr. an American mathematician who works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations, serving as a Senior Research Mathematician at Princeton University.
Completing his Bachelors and Masters, earning a doctorate in the Princeton University and working as a Maths faculty in a well known Institute when he developed signs of Schizophrenia (a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental illness characterized by impairments in the perception or expression of reality). Being given insulin shock therapy and antipsychotic medications, he recovered gradually with the passage of time. Encouraged by his wife, he worked in a communitarian setting where his eccentricities were accepted.
In campus legend, Nash became "The Phantom of Fine Hall" (Fine Hall is Princeton's mathematics center), a shadowy figure who would scribble arcane equations on blackboards in the middle of the night.
In 1978 John Forbes Nash was awarded the John Von Neumann Theory Prize for his invention of non-cooperative equilibria, now called Nash equilibria. He won the Leroy P Steele Prize in 1999.
He shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics with two other game theorists.
Reflection:
There may be days when you get up in the morning and things aren’t the way you had hoped they would be. That’s when you have to tell yourself that things will get better.There are times when people disappoint you and let you down. But those are the times when you remind yourself to trust your own judgments and opinions, to keep your life focused on believing in yourself.Because the challenges and changes will only help you to find the goals that you know are meant to come true for you.Keep believing in yourself....you would become imperfectly perfect someday!
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Imperfectly Perfect....
Posted by Sivasakthi Ranganathan at 9:43 AM
Labels: A Beautiful Mind, John Nash, schizophrenia
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