10. Alicia Nash, interview, 8.15.96.
11. Interviews with John Danskin, 10.19.95, and Odette Larde, 12.7.95.
12. O. Larde, interview.
13. "Recent Advances in Game Theory," Princeton, October 46, 1961.
14. Reinhard Selten, professor of economics, University of Bonn, interview, 6.27.95.
15. John Harsanyi, interview, 6.27.95.
16. Harold Kuhn, personal communication, 8.97.
17. John Nash, "Le Probleme de Cauchy Pour Les Equations Differentielles d"une Fluide Generale," Bulletin de la Societe Mathematique de France, Bulletin de la Societe Mathematique de France, vol. 90 (1962), pp. 48797. Submitted 1.19.62. vol. 90 (1962), pp. 48797. Submitted 1.19.62.
18. John Nash, Les Prix n.o.bel 1994, Les Prix n.o.bel 1994, op. cit. op. cit.
19. According to the Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Encyclopedia of Mathematics, "Mathematical study of [the Cauchy problem for the general Navier-Stokes equation] has become active since J. Nash and N. Itaya proved the existence of unique regular solutions local in time." "Mathematical study of [the Cauchy problem for the general Navier-Stokes equation] has become active since J. Nash and N. Itaya proved the existence of unique regular solutions local in time."
20. Selberg, interview.
21. Gillian Richardson, interview, 12.14.97.
22. Karl Uitti, professor of French, Princeton University, interview, 8.22.97.
23. Confidential source.
24. Uitti, interview.
25. Jean-Pierre Cauvin, interview, 8.25.97.
26. Hubert Goldschmidt, Columbia University, interview, 3.20.97.
27. Letter from Robert Oppenheimer to Leon Motchane, Inst.i.tut des Hautes Etudes, 4.26.62.
28. Memorandum from Robert Oppenheimer to Atle Selberg, 4.26.62.
29. Stefan A. Burr, professor of computer science, City College of New York, interview, 5.95.
30. A. Borel, interview.
31. Ibid.
32. Gaby Borel, interview, 10.94.
33. Al Vasquez, interview, 6.17.97.
34. Lloyd S. Shapley, interview, 10.94.
35. Ibid.
36. Postcard from J. Nash to V. Nash, 7.62.
37. Ed Nelson, professor of mathematics, Princeton University, interview, 8.17.95.
38. Lars Hormander, interview, 2.13.97.
39. John Nash, personal communication with Harold Kuhn, 8.97.
40. Hormander, interview.
41. Ibid.
42. Death certificate of Carlos Larde, State Department of Health, New Jersey, 7.2.62.
43. Postcard from John Nash to Martha Nash Legg, 7.24.63.
44. John Danskin, interview, 10.19.95.
45. Confidential source.
46. Proceedings, International Congress of Mathematicians, Stockholm, 1962.
47. Letter from John Nash to Martha Nash Legg, 9.20.62.
48. Unsigned postcard to mathematics department, Princeton University, 9.1.62.
49. Uitti, interview.
50. Letter from John Nash to M. Legg, 11.19.62.
51. Ibid., 1.26.63.
52. M. Legg, interview, 3.30.96.
53. Alicia L. Nash Alicia L. Nash vs. vs. John Forbes Nash, John Forbes Nash, Complaint, Superior Court of New Jersey, Mercer County, 12.27.62; Frank L. Scott, attorney, interview, 8.12.97. Complaint, Superior Court of New Jersey, Mercer County, 12.27.62; Frank L. Scott, attorney, interview, 8.12.97.
54. M. Legg, interview, 8.2.95.
55. A. Nash A. Nash vs. vs. J. Nash, J. Nash, op. cit. op. cit.
56. Judgment Nisi, Alicia Nash Alicia Nash vs. vs. John Forbes Nash, John Forbes Nash, Superior Court of New Jersey, Mercer County, 5.1.63. Superior Court of New Jersey, Mercer County, 5.1.63.
57. Final Judgment (Divorce), Alicia L. Nash and John Forbes Nash, 8.2.63.
58. Robert Winters, interview, 8.9.95.
59. Letter from James G. Miller to Albert E. Meder, Jr., treasurer, American Mathematical Society, 4.2.63.
60. Harold Kuhn, interview, 8.95.
61. Letter from William Ted Martin to Albert W. Tucker, 4.1.63.
62. Ibid.
63. Letter from Albert E. Meder to William Ted Martin, 3.28.63.
64. Confidential source.
65. Donald Spencer, interview, 11.28.95.
66. Winters, interview.
67. Letter from Martha Nash Legg to Donald Spencer, 4.24.63.
42: The "Blowing Up" Problem
1. Robert Garber, interview, 5.6.96.
2. Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuekoo"s Nest One Flew Over the Cuekoo"s Nest (New York: Viking, 1962); Joanne Greenberg, (New York: Viking, 1962); Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (New York: Signet, 1964); Thomas S. Szasz, (New York: Signet, 1964); Thomas S. Szasz, The Mvth of Mental Illness The Mvth of Mental Illness (New York: Hoeber-Harper, 1961). (New York: Hoeber-Harper, 1961).
3. William Otis, psychiatrist, interview, 5.3.96.
4. Garber, interview.
5. Alicia Nash, interview, 8.15.97.
6. Otis, interview.
7. A. Nash, interview.
8. Martha Nash Legg, interview, 3.30.96.
9. Garber, interview.
10. Ibid.
11. Frank L. Scott, interview, 11.12.97.
12. Garber, interview.
13. Letter from John Nash to Norbert Wiener, 5.1.63.
14. Interviews with A. Nash; Donald Spencer, 11.28.95; Gaby Borel, 3.14.96.
15. Howard Mele declined to be interviewed, 4.9.96.
16. New Jersey Board of Medicine.
17. Interviews with Garber and Otis.
18. Belle Parmet, social worker, interview, 8.24.97.
19. Letter from J. Nash to N.Wiener.
20. Garber, interview.
21. Letter from John Nash to Virginia Nash, 8.10.63.
22. Ibid., 8.22.63.
23. Ibid., 8.29.63.
24. Richard S. E. Keefe and Phillip D. Harvev, Understanding Schizophrenia Understanding Schizophrenia (New York: Free Press, 1994), p. 48. (New York: Free Press, 1994), p. 48.
25. Louisa Gauvin, interview, 8.25.97.
26. Armand Borel, interview, 3.1.96.
27. Ibid.
28. Memorandum from Robert Oppenheimer to Atle Selberg, 9.30.63.
29. Letter from David Gale to Deane Montgomery, 1.3.64.
30. Letter from J. Nash to V. Nash, 10.31.63.
31. Ibid., 3.14.64.
32. Ibid., 10.31.64 and 12.13.64.
33. John Nash, plenary lecture, World Congress of Psychiatry, Madrid, 8.26.96, op. cit.
34. Heisuke Hironaka, "On Nash Blowing Up," in Arithmetic and Geometry II Arithmetic and Geometry II (Boston: Birkhauser, 1983). (Boston: Birkhauser, 1983).
35. William Browder, interview.
36. Memorandum from John Milnor to Dean of Faculty J. Douglas Brown, 4.8.64.
37. Ibid.
38. Letter from Howard S. Mele to John Milnor, 3.30.64.
39. Garber, interview.
40. Letter from H. S. Mele to J. Milnor.