John Nash

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5 total works indexed

1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

   · 1996 · cited 200,574x

2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 41,691x

3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,351x

4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

   · 2007 · cited 34,324x

5. The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)

   · 1992 · cited 28,849x

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Quotes

• “I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.”
• “By the time I was a student in high school I was reading the classic Men of Mathematics by E. T. Bell and I remember succeeding in proving the classic Fermat theorem about an integer multiplied by itself p times where p is a prime.”
• “As a graduate student I studied mathematics fairly broadly and I was fortunate enough, besides developing the idea which led to "," also to make a nice discovery relating to manifolds and real algebraic varieties. So I was prepared actually for the possibility that the game theory work would not be regarded as acceptable as a thesis in the mathematics department and then that I could realize the objective of a Ph. D. thesis with the other results.”
• “Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.”
• “At the present time I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health. One aspect of this is that rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.”
• “Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1752-01-18 ) 18 January 1752, Lambeth , London, England

Died

13 May 1835 (1835-05-13) (aged 83), East Cowes Castle , Isle of Wight, England

Occupation

Architect

Buildings

Marble Arch Buckingham Palace Royal Pavilion, Brighton Regent Street (with James Burton ) Carlton House Terrace (with Decimus Burton )

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