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Sunday, October 4, 2009

Mad Geniuses




Though we may not know what a high IQ has to do with mental illness, brilliant people often strike us as more than a bit nutty. You don't have to look far to find examples of the mad genius in history. 
Source:
http://health.howstuffworks.com/mad-genius1.htm


John Nash (1928 - )

John Nash
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John Forbes Nash, Jr.
The award-winning film "A Beautiful Mind" popularized the story of John Nash. Nash is a world-renowned mathematician who struggled with paranoid schizophrenia after coming up with significant contributions to the concept of game theory
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1 comment:

  1. atlchulachicaOctober 4, 2009 at 5:44 PM

    I have heard this before. But this is really interesting to me. Do you know of any other famous geniuses who were crazy?

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