quote:
As letters of recommendation go, it was not very elaborate, just a
single sentence: “This man is a genius.”
That was how Carnegie Tech professor R. L. Duffin described
John Nash to the faculty at Princeton University, where Nash entered
as a 20-year-old graduate student in 1948. Within two years,
Duffin’s assessment had been verified. Nash’s “beautiful mind” had
by then launched an intellectual revolution that eventually propelled
game theory from the fad du jour to the foundation of the
social sciences.
See Also: A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar.
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