John Forbes Nash, Nobel Prize Winner for Economics 1994, on His Mental Health Problems: «I Would Not Have Had Good Scientific Ideas if I Had Thought More Normally»

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In an interview given in 2005, John Nash, Nobel Prize laureate in Economics in 1994, referred to the relationship between his mental health problems and his scientific work. By then, the mathematician had lived together for about 25 years with schizophrenia. “He would not have had good scientific ideas if he had thought more normally,” Nash said. In that same conversation, the mathematician set as an example the painter Vincent van Gogh, another…