I. Introduction/General Information about the Book
•Title: A Beautiful Mind
•Author: Sylvia Nasar
•Type of Book : Biography
II. Characters
•Main Character:
John Forbes Nash Jr. - a math prodigy able to solve problems that baffled the greatest of minds, he cracked complex ecryption insights for the US Department of Defence and teached calculus at the MIT. He also struggles from his Paranoid Schizophrenia disease
John Forbes Nash Jr. - a math prodigy able to solve problems that baffled the greatest of minds, he cracked complex ecryption insights for the US Department of Defence and teached calculus at the MIT. He also struggles from his Paranoid Schizophrenia disease
I can identify with the main character when he arrives at the Princeton University when everyone ignores him because i felt the same
•Supporting Characters:
- Alicia Nash - a student of John Nash and lately becames his wife
- Charles Herman, John Nash's roommate and best bud throughout graduate school
- William Parcher - an agent at the Department of Defense that assigned John Nash on the "Top Secret" assignment
III. Settings
• Describe the time and place of the story It was at New Jersey, United States in late 1940's. Where John Nash studied at the Princeton University that showed who John Nash was, A mathematical genius who worked on governing dynamics,a theory in mathematical economics. It is also where he became part of the United States Department of Defense because of his achievement. and sooner got married to Alicia.
IV. Plot: The Action/Summary of What Happened in the Story
•Summary of the Story- John Nash arrives at Princeton University as a new graduate student.
- After his study in Princeton University, he accepted a prestigious appointment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Five years later while teaching a class on Calculus at MIT, he placed a particularly interesting problem on the chalkboard that he dared his students to solve. When one of his student Alicia Larde came to his office to discuss the problem, the two fall in love and eventually marry.
- Nash is invited to a secret United States Department of Defense facility in the Pentagon to crack a complex encryption of an enemy telecommunication. Nash able to decipher the code mentally had astonished the other codebreakers. Parcher observes Nash's performance from above, while partially concealed behind a screen.
- Parcher gives Nash a new assignment to look for patterns in magazines and newspapers about the Soviet plot. and must write a report of his findings and place them in a specified mailbox.
- After being chased by Russian agents and an exchange of gunfire, Nash became paranoid and begun to behave erratically. He suffered from hallucinations and had undergone medications.
- Nash grows older and approaches his old friend and intellectual rival, Martin Hansen, now head of the Princeton mathematics department, who grants him permission to work out of the library and audit classes. Even though Nash still suffers from hallucinations and mentions taking newer medications, he is ultimately able to live with and largely ignore his psychotic episodes. He takes his situation in stride and humorously checks to ensure that any new acquaintances are in fact real people, not hallucinations.
- Nash eventually earns the privilege of teaching again. He is honored by his fellow professors for his achievement in mathematics, and goes on to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his revolutionary work on game theory.
V. Theme
•What is the author trying to say in the story? Is there a moral in the story?
The author is trying to say that nothing can stop you to do what you have in yourself when you have the passion to do so, be it a disorder or not.
The author is trying to say that nothing can stop you to do what you have in yourself when you have the passion to do so, be it a disorder or not.
•This book showed me/I learned from this story:
I learn why compassion is an absolute must when dealing with the mentally ill. And when someone you love is dealing with a disorder, be it schizophrenia or depression, you won't ask them to "pull themselves together." You will understand why they need your love--because they are just as confused as you are.
I learn why compassion is an absolute must when dealing with the mentally ill. And when someone you love is dealing with a disorder, be it schizophrenia or depression, you won't ask them to "pull themselves together." You will understand why they need your love--because they are just as confused as you are.
•State a problem in the story and how it was solved
The headmaster of Princeton University informed Nash, who has missed many of his classes, that he cannot begin work until he finishes a thesis paper, prompting him to seek a truly original idea for the paper. A woman at the bar is what ultimately inspires his fruitful work in the concept of governing dynamics, a theory in mathematical economics.
The headmaster of Princeton University informed Nash, who has missed many of his classes, that he cannot begin work until he finishes a thesis paper, prompting him to seek a truly original idea for the paper. A woman at the bar is what ultimately inspires his fruitful work in the concept of governing dynamics, a theory in mathematical economics.
VI. Evaluation of the Book
•What are your thoughts about the book? (did you or didn't you like it and why?)
The story was very inspiring because eventhough John Nash has a mental disorder it did'nt stop him to life a normal life.
