John Forbes Nash Jr.

John Forbes Nash Jr. was born on June 13, 1928 in Bluefild and was the son of John who was an electrical engineer, and Virginia who was a teacher. As a child, John Nash, was surrounded of incentive for the study, knowledge and curiosity. His parents gave him the Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia and he still small already learned great things from the books that surrounded him.
Bluefild was not a community of scholars and high-tech but of lawyers and businessmen , so the challenge was that Nash would have to learn the knowledge of the world and not of the immediate community .
At the time Nash was in school , he was reading the classic " Men of Mathematics " by ET Bell that made him discover his passion for mathematics and he also succeeded in proving the classic Fermat theorem about an integer multiplied by itself "p" times which "p" is a prime.
At school, his teachers not recognized as a prodigy, but as an extremely anti-social boy. Since age twelve, performed scientific experiments at home. It was clear that he learned more at home than at school, and was dissatisfied with the teaching in the school and this time it was possible to note the  Nash's preference for seclusion and solitude.He related the social rejection of his classmates with jokes and intellectual superiority , believing that their dances and sports were a distraction from his experiments and studies .
Nash attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he studied chemical engineering, however, found difficulties in this area and then moved to the mathematics course.

Nash was accepted by Harvard and Princeton University and  though Harvard having been his first choice because of the prestige and higher education courses in mathematics at Harvard University, Nash received letters from the then chairman of the department of mathematics at Princeton University inviting him fervently joining Princeton University. As this University was closer to Bluefild, Nash finished then opting for Princeton.

After graduating from Princeton and teach there for a year, John Nash became professor of mathematics at the famous university of MIT ( Massachusetts Institute of Technology ) . He taught at MIT during the years 1951-1959 , but his teaching methods were quite unpopular with students . During this time , John Nash made ​​several advances in the study of mathematics , solving a classical problem , so far unsolved , differential geometry.

During his years at MIT , his mental problems began to worsen . However , in 1953 , had a son with Eleanor Stier . The boy was named John David Stier . However , contrary to the will of Eleanor , John Nash never married her .
In 1957 , the brilliant mathematician married

Alicia , a student of physics at MIT formed , where they met. In autumn 1958 , Alicia became pregnant . But a year later , John Nash began suffering from paranoid schizophrenia . Because of his mental illness , had to give up his post as professor of MIT and was hospitalized , she spent months in hospitals , even against their will . Nash recovered temporarily , but soon returned to suffer mental disorders . However , in the brief intervals of recovery , produced important mathematical works .
With this disease, Nash used to have delusions and give attention to them, but over time he was having a gradual recovery and went on to ignore the delusions without those ran out, but even so, it only occurred after Nash has gone through treatments used electroconvulsive therapy and antipsychotic medications.
In 1978, Nash was attributed the John von Neumann Theory Prize for his discoveries about the non-cooperative equilibrium, now called Nash Equilibrium. Also won the Leroy P. Steele Prize in 1999.
In 1994, as a result of his work with game theory, which developed as a student at Princeton, he received the Prize of Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Dedications made ​​the award to Alicia. 

Nash created two popular games: Hex (game) (independently created in 1942) and So Long Sucker in 1950 with Melvin Hausner and Lloyd Shapley.
In 2010, John Nash was at the Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of São Paulo, during the second meeting of the Brazilian Society of Game Theory in Commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Nash Equilibrium Theory.
Nash and Alicia divorced in 1963 but returned in 1970 to live together, in a non-romantic relationship, she sheltered him as a companion. The couple renewed their relationship after Nash was honored with the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994. They remarried on June 1, 2001.

A film about the life of John Nash was made: "A Beautiful Mind"