Was the movie “A Beautiful Mind” a biography of the life of John Nash?
This book is an amazing book based on the life of John Nash. John Nash is the greatest mathematical genius of the 20th century. The book reads like a fine novel describing the life of John Nash while explaining important mathematical discoveries at different times in his life. John Nash is no doubt brilliant, yet he lacks in social behavior. At the height of Nash’s career while trying to decipher one of the hardest problems in the history of mathematics, Nash goes insane. He believes to be hunted by men in red ties, he believes he is disguised as the Pope on numerous magazine covers, and finally tries to start an international organization posing as the emperor of Antarctica. This book is amazing to me. I read it not too long ago and loved everything about it. I would recommed all my students to read this and then we would watch the movie in class together and find all the literary elements in it. Sources: http://www.libra
John Martin Wolfskill contributed much to the success of the Bliley Electric Company. Several of his inventions truly changed the direction of frequency control in radio communications. Unfortunately, many of these influences are known only to a limited number of historians, and living engineers and technologist. To those who knew him, there is little doubt about his genius and love of the industry. Below is a biography of the life of John Martin Wolfskill written in the year 2002 by his youngest daughter, Sallie Wolfskill Smith, in collaboration with her sister, Pat Wolfskill Mays. She has invested many hours in the research and writing of this work. Sallie agreed to share several dozen family photos of John and his family. These can be found in the Wolfskill Photo Album along with several from the company archives. I greatly appreciate the generosity of the time and energy she has put in to bring this valuable contribution to this site. I am sure my father, F. Dawon Bliley, would be
