ABSTRACT
John Nash Jr. was a brilliant mathematician whose contributions to game theory continue to inform our understanding of complex systems to this day. He was also a person who struggled to find the balance between the world he perceived in his mind and the world in which he lived. His well-documented struggle with schizophrenia rarely examined the inherent loneliness of his genius. A genius is often far ahead of the rest of us in understanding some aspect of reality. What they see today we can only come to understand tomorrow. But what happens when the genius can no longer trust what their own mind tells them? This is the aspect of Nash’s life that is simultaneously the most tragic and the most profound.
