John Nash, the Math Genius

[bookslover]

I think the most interesting thing I read about Nash, reading around in the obits, was the statement that his Ph.D dissertation was just 27 pages long and "very generously double-spaced" (per, I think, the New York Times obit).

I guess that, at that level of math genius, prolixity is not a requirement!

PS: 2 + 2 is still 11, right?

 

[DMcFadden]

The elegance of mathematics is that the most profound truths can be reduced to relatively brief symbolic summaries.

Just consider the power and societal implications of e = mc2

But, then, we have Kurios Iesous

 

[VictorBravo]

Just consider the power and societal implications of e = mc2

True enough, but that is merely a description of something found in God's creation. You can actually measure it, etc.

Even more hard to get your head around is Euler's identity:

e^i pi = -1 (stated: "e to the i pi" where "i" is the square root of -1).

Two irrational numbers combined with an imaginary number to come up with one less than zero. Even though I know how to derive it, I still don't know what it means....

 

[Backwoods Presbyterian]

John Nash, fellow West Virginian...I however did not get that Math gene.

 

[Physeter]

The tragedy of Nash is that he was a professing Atheist. We can never know for sure what his relationship with God was. All material that I can find on him on the web states that he was an Atheist.