Director: Ron Howard, Writers: Akiva Goldsman, Sylvia Nasar (book), Stars: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly
I watched this film during my exam period. Ah, talk about timely reminder and inspiration. A Beautiful Mind (2001) is loosely based on the biography book of the Nobel Prize Winner mathematician, John Nash. In this film, John Nash (Russell Crowe) is a co-scholar of the prestigious Carnegie Scholarship for mathematics with Martin Hansen (Josh Lucas) but was depicted as socially inept person. He was constantly giving himself immense pressure to find the “truly original idea” to distinguish himself from others in the competitive world of academia. And Nash finally succeeded when one day an incident in bar inspired him to look over Adam Smith’s governing dynamic: ”Every man for himself” and came up with a cooperative method in game theory which is now known as – “Nash Equilibrium”. This secures a place for Nash at the highly sought after, Wheeler lab – the MIT military think tank. It all went well for John Nash until Continue reading
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