Thursday, June 26, 2008

beautiful graphing calculator mind


The story begins in the early years of John Nash (Russel Crowe), studied at Princeton University and develops his "original idea" that will revolutionize the world of mathematics. Early in the movie, Nash begins developing paranoid schizophrenia and endures delusional episodes while painfully watching the loss and burden his condition brings on his wife and friends. Princeton headmaster informs Nash that he has missed many of his classes. A particularly harsh rejection from a woman at the bar inspires his fruitful work in the concept of governing dynamics, a mathematical economics’s theory.

Nash became a lecturer in MIT later. When his student Alicia Larde (Jennifer Connelly) comes to his office, they later fall in love and marry. He also encounters a mysterious Department of Defense agent, William Parcher. In these periods of time he used to be found scribbling math formulas with chalk on window panes, his favorite pass time was trying to find a new spectacular idea on math, observing birds’ movements, and tracing Soviet plot given by Parcher. He gives Nash a new assignment to look for patterns in magazines and newspapers.

From the way this movie described, his mind was functioning as graphing calculators with many aspects and formulas, jumbled with all kinds of numbers and figures. His mind, which became like graphing calculators, was a good visualization tool for the audience to understand his beautiful mind. Nash approaches his old friend Martin Hansen, head of the Princeton mathematics department, who grants him permission to work out of the library and audit classes, although the university will not provide him with his own office. Even though Nash still suffers from hallucinations and mentions taking newer medications from his graphing calculators mind, he is ultimately able to live with and largely ignore his psychotic episodes.

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