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33. J. Davis, interview.

34. Letter from Alicia Nash to Jovce Davis, June or July 1952.

35. J. Davis, interview.

36. Ibid.

37. H. Newman, interview, 3.2.96.



38. Duchane, interview.

39. A. Nash, interview, 11.94.

40. J. Davis, interview.

41. Letter from J. Davis to her parents, 4.24.54.

42. Letter from A. Nash to J. Davis, June or Julv 1954.

43. A. Nash, interview, 7.18.96.

44. John Moore, professor of mathematics, Princeton University, interview, 10.6.95.

27: The Courts.h.i.+p

1. Arthur Mattuck, interview, 11.7.95.

2. Letter from Alicia Nash to Joyce Davis, 7.55.

3. Ibid.

4. Emma Duchane, interview, 4.30.96.

5. Jacob Bricker, interview, 5.22.97.

6. Duchane, interview, 6.26.97.

7. Ibid.

8. Ibid., 4.30.96.

9. Ibid., 6.26.97.

10. Mattuck, interview.

11. Eleanor Stier, interview, 2.14.96.

12. Duchane, interview, 4.30.96.

13. "Grant in Aid, Support for Dr. John F. Nash, Jr., as Alfred F. Sloan Research Fellow in Mathematics," 5.15.56; also. Report for 195556, Alfred F. Sloan Foundation, New York, New York.

14. "The application is quasi-tentative ... the draft problem is a complication." Letter from John Nash to Albert W. Tucker, undated (probably written in early fall 1955).

15. Letter from John Nash to Ha.s.sler Whitney, 10.55; John Forbes Nash, Jr., members.h.i.+p application. Inst.i.tute for Advanced Studv, 5.23.55. Nash's application was formally approved in January (source: letter from Robert Oppenheimer to John Nash, 1.17.56).

16. Letter from A. Nash to J. Davis, 2.56.

17. Nesmith Ankeny, who joined the MIT faculty in the fall of 1955, witnessed the incident and related the anecdote to Harold and Estelle Kuhn not long after it occurred (source: Harold Kuhn, e-mail, 5.21.97, and interview, 5.22.97).

18. J. Davis, interview, 5.19.97.

28: Seattle

1. The Inst.i.tute on Differential Geometry took place from mid-June to the end of July 1956 at the University of Was.h.i.+ngton in Seattle. Dates and partic.i.p.ants given in a memorandum from Carl B. Allen-doerfer, chairman, department of mathematics, University of Was.h.i.+ngton, Seattle, 5.23.56.

2. John Milnor, e-mail, 8.97.

3. Eugenio Calabi, interview, 3.2.96; John Isbell, professor of mathematics, State University of New York at Buffalo, interview, 6.14.97; Raoul Bott, professor of mathematics, Harvard University, interview, 11.5.95.

4. E-mail from John Nash to Harold Kuhn, 4.16.96.

5. Letter from John Nash to Martha Nash Legg, 11.4.65.

6. The description of Forrester is based on: Arthur Mattuck, interview, 5.21.97, e-mail, 6.13.97; Isbell, interview, 6.14.97; Calabi, interview, 3.2.96; Albert Nijenhuis, interview, 6.17.97, e-mails, 6.13.97; Victor Klee, e-mails, 6.13.97, 6.14.97, 6.16.97; Kuhn, e-mails, 4.16.96, 4.17.96, 4.18.96; Joseph Kohn, interview, 4.17.96; John Walter, interview, 6.13.97; Robert L. Vaught, interview, 6.13.97; Ramesh Gangolli, interview, 6.16.97. Mary Sheetz provided the dates of Forrester's employment at the University of Was.h.i.+ngton, e-mail, 6.16.97.

7. Nijenhuis, interview.

8. Mattuck, interview.

9. Isbell, interview.

10. Vaught, interview.

11. Nijenhuis, interview.

12. Vaught, interview.

13. Ibid.

14. Walter, interview.

15. Nash was in Seattle in February of 1967, apparently for a month. Letter from John Nash to Virginia Nash, 2.67.

16. Klee, interview.

17. This scene is reconstructed on the basis of recollections from Martha Nash Legg, interview, 9.2.95.

18. Postcard from John Nash to Virginia and John Nash, Sr., 7.12.56.

19. Jerome Neuwirth, interview, 5.21.97.

20. Jacob Bricker, interview, 5.22.97.

29: Death and Marriage

1. Postcard from John Nash to Virginia and John Nash, Sr., 8.11.56.

2. Ibid., 9.18.56.

3. Elizabeth Hardwick, "Boston: A Lost Ideal," Harper's, Harper's, December 1959, quoted in Paul Mariani, December 1959, quoted in Paul Mariani, Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell (New Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell (New York: Norton, 1994), p. 271. York: Norton, 1994), p. 271.

4. Postcards from John Nash to Virginia and John Nash, Sr., 8.53, 9.53, 12.2.53, 1.2.55.

5. Martha Nash Legg, interview, 3.29.96.

6. Harold Kuhn, interview, 8.97.

7. M. Legg, interview.

8. Letter from John Nash to Martha Nash Legg, from Paris, 9.28.59.

9. M. Legg, interview.

10. Letter from J. Nash to H. Kuhn, 8.97.

11. Death certificate of John Nash, Sr., 9.12.56.

12. M. Legg, interview.

13. Eleanor Stier, interview, 3.15.96.

14. Natasha Brunswick, interview, 9.25.95.

15. Leo Goodman, as told to Harold Kuhn, 1.95.

16. Alicia Nash, interview, 5.14.97.

17. Letter from Alicia Nash to Joyce Davis, 10.26.56.

18. Ibid.

19. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar The Bell Jar (New York: Harper & Row, 1971). (New York: Harper & Row, 1971).

20. M. Legg, interview.

21. John Nash, dinner party at Gaby and Armand Borel's, 3.22.96.

22. M. Legg, interview.

23. A. Nash, interview, 10.11.97; also M. Legg, interview.

24. Postcard from J. Nash to V. Nash, 2.57.

25. Enrique Larde, interview, 12.21.95.

Part Three: A SLOW FIRE BURNING 30: Olden Lane and Was.h.i.+ngton Square

1. Inst.i.tute for Advanced Study, Directory, 195657, Inst.i.tute for Advanced Study Archive, Princeton, New Jersey.

2. Regis, Who Got Einstein's Office?, Who Got Einstein's Office?, op. cit., p. 5. op. cit., p. 5.

3. John Danskin, interview, 10.19.95.

4. Paul S. Cohen, professor of mathematics, Stanford University, interview, 1.6.96.

5. Peter Lax, professor of mathematics, Courant Inst.i.tute, interview, 2.29.96.

6. Cathleen Morawetz, professor of mathematics, Courant Inst.i.tute, interview, 2.29.96.

7. George Boehn, "The New Uses of the Abstract," Fortune, Fortune, July 1958. July 1958.

8. Constance Reid, Courant in Gottingen and New York: The Ston of an Improbable Mathematician Courant in Gottingen and New York: The Ston of an Improbable Mathematician (New York: Springer Verlag, 1976). (New York: Springer Verlag, 1976).

9. Ibid.

10. Ibid.

11. Lax, interview.

12. Boehm, "The New Uses of the Abstract," op. cit.

13. Nash told Harold Kuhn that he kept a car in New York City that year and that parking it caused him innumerable headaches, personal communication, 7.97.

14. Postcard from John Nash to Virginia and John Nash, Sr., 8.11.56.

15. Natasha Brunswick, interview, 9.25.95.

16. Tilla Weinstein, professor of mathematics, Rutgers University, interview, 8.25.97.

17. Morawetz, interview.

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