25. Ibid.
26. Richard Palais, professor of mathematics, Brandeis University, interview, 11.6.95.
27. Bell, op. cit.
28. Atle Selberg, interview.
29. Eugenio Calabi, interview, 3.2.96.
30. Letter from John Nash to Martha Nash Legg, 11.4.65.
31. Stein, interview.
32. Hormander, interview.
33. Harold Kuhn, e-mail, 7.97.
34. Paul A. Samuelson, interview.
35. William led Martin, interview, 9.7.95.
36. Robert Solow, professor of economics, MIT, interview, 1.95.
37. Martin, interview.
38. Cathleen Morawetz, interview, 2.29.96.
39. Alicia Nash, interview, 1.3.97.
40. Ibid.
41. John Nash, personal communication, 3.22.96.
42. Eva Browder, interview, 9.6.97.
43. Ibid.
44. A. Nash, interview 45. F. Browder, interview.
46. John Moore, professor of mathematics, Princeton University, interview, 10.5.95.
33: Schemes
1. Alicia Nash, interview, 7.1.97.
2. Ibid.
3. Letter from John Nash to Albert W. Tucker, early October 1958.
4. George Mackey, interview, 1.21.96.
5. Letter from C. Ralph Bunchcr, professor of biostatistics and epidemiology, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, to author, 5.20.96.
6. A. Nash, interview.
7. John Nash, letter to A. Tucker, 10.58.
8. Ibid.
9. Martha Nash Legg, interview, 3.29.96.
10. Paul A. Samuelson, interview,,3.13.96.
11. Saunders McLane, former chairman, department of mathematics, University of Chicago, interview, 3.4.96.
12. Shlomo Sternberg, interview, 3.5.96.
13. Ibid. Also membership application, Inst.i.tute for Advanced Studies, tall 1958.
14. Letter from Albert W. Tucker to John Nash, 10.8.58.
15. Letter from Albert W. Tucker to Sloan Foundation, 10.8.58.
16. Letter from Albert W. Tucker to Guggenheim Foundation, 11.26.58.
17. Gian-Carlo Rota, interview, 11.14.95.
18. Robert Solow, emeritus professor of economics, MIT, interview, 1.95.
19. Letter from John Nash to Virginia Nash, 10.15.58.
20. New York Times, New York Times, 11.14.63. 11.14.63.
21. Paul S. Cohen won the Fields in 1966 and the Bocher in 1964. The sketch of Paul Cohen is based on interviews with Raoul Bott, 11.95 and 11.5.96; Lennart Carleson, 10.18.95; Elias Stein, 12.28.95; Felix Browder, 11.2.95; Adriano Garsia, professor of mathematics, University of California at San Diego, 12.31.95; Lars Hormander, 2.13.97; Jiirgcn Moser, 3.21.96; Jerome Neuwirth, 5.27.97.
22. Cohen, interview, 1.5.96.
23. Stein, interview, 12.28.95.
24. Ibid.
25. Garsia, interview, 12.31.95.
26. Cohen, interview.
27. Garsia, interview; Neuwirth, interview, 5.27.97.
28. F. Browder, interview, 11.10.95.
29. Ibid., 11.2.95.
34: The Emperor of Antarctica
1. Richard Emery, interview, 4.4.96. The party scene described by Emery is also based on the recollections of Jurgen and Gertrude Moser, John and Karen Tate, Adriano Garsia, Gian-Carlo Rota, and Alicia Nash.
2. Alicia Nash, interview, 2.7.96.
3. Paul S. Cohen, interview, 1.5.96.
4. Al Vasquez, professor of mathematics, City University of New York, interview, 6.17.97.
5. Raoul Bott, interview, 11.5.95.
6. Emma Duchane, interview, 6.26.97.
7. Letter from C. Ralph Buncher to author, 5.20.96; also letter from Henry Y. Wan, professor of economics, Cornell University, to author, 6.5.96. Tony Phillips, professor of mathematics. State University of New York at Stony Brook, interview, 8.26.97, recalled Nash"s question to the cla.s.s.
8. Ramesh Gangolli, professor of mathematics, University of Washington, interview, 6.12.95. Also, Alberto R. Galmarino, professor of mathematics. Northeastern University, interview, 6.95.
9. Atle Selberg, interviews, 8.16.95 and 1.23.96.
10. Gian-Carlo Rota, interview, 10.29.94; Gangolli, interview; Galmarino, interview. Martha Nash Legg put this episode later, but Gangolli and Galmarino recall that Nash didn"t meet his cla.s.ses for the last couple of weeks of the term which ended 1.21.59 and Rota recalled that Nash stopped by his apartment before "driving south."
11. Jerome Neuwirth, interview, 6.4.97; also Garsia, interview, 12.31.95.
12. Hartley Rogers, interview, 2.16.96.
13. Duchane, interview, 4.30.96.
14. Confidential source.
15. Vasquez, interview.
16. Kate Tate, interview, 8.11.97.
17. John Nash, plenary lecture, op. cit.
18. A. Nash, interview.
19. Cohen, interview.
20. Vasquez, interview.
21. Harold Kuhn, interview, 8.94.
22. Cohen, interview.
23. Neuwirth, interview.
24. Moser, interview, 3.23.96.
25. William Ted Martin, interview, 9.7.95.
26. Felix Browder, interview, 11.2.95; Paul A. Samuelson, interview, 10.94.
27. John Danskin, interview, 10.19.96.
28. The account of this incident is based on interviews with the following sources: Sigurdur Helgason, 2.13.96; F. Browder; Samuelson, 10.94 and 3.15.96; Harold Kuhn, interview, 1.95. Browder, who later became chairman of the Chicago department, recalled seeing the letter in the files. Efforts by the current chairman to locate it proved fruitless.
29. Vasquez, interview.
30. Eugenio Calabi, interview, 3.2.96.
31. Ibid.
32. Selberg, interview.
33. Program, 554th Meeting, Columbia University, New York, February 28, 1959, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 65 (1959), p. 149. vol. 65 (1959), p. 149.
34. Harold N. Shapiro, interview, 2.29.96.
35. Peter Lax, interview, 2.6.96.
36. Donald J. Newman, interview, 3.2.96.
37. Cathleen Morawetz, interview, 2.29.96.
38. F. Browder, interview.
35: In the Eye of the Storm
1. Alicia Nash, interview, 7.1.97.
2. Emma Duchane, interview, 6.26.97.
3. A. Nash, interview.
4. Donald V. Reynolds, interview, 6.29.97.
5. A. Nash, interview.
6. Duchane, interview.