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A Beautiful Mind

 A winner of eight Oscar nominations, “A Beautiful Mind” is about a guy who wins the

Nobel Prize for Economics !hough "ohn Nash "r is actually a mathematician, his inno#ati#e

wor$ in game theory guaranteed that economics would ne#er be the same, and his %&&'

Nobel Prize was well(deser#ed )ntil today, the conce*t of “Nash e+uilibrium” is a #ital tool in

understanding strategic beha#ior in economics

"ohn Nash is a mathematical genius who ha**ens to ha#e schizo*hrenia is

*rinci*al diagnosis is that he has *aranoid schizo*hrenia, one of the most disabling and

emotionally de#astating illnesses $nown to man !here are no *ro#isional diagnoses, which

can be ruled out or confirmed Other conditions that may be the focus of the treatment for

"ohn Nash is ha#ing *roblems with his social en#ironment, education, and occu*ation

 According to the mo#ie, there was this scene in a bar where we first encountered

"ohn Nash-s conce*t of game theory “Nash and his friends, also mathematics graduate

students, are sitting in a Princeton bar when fi#e women enter, one of which is a stri$ingly

beautiful blonde One of his friends +uoted Adam .mith and ad#ocates /e#ery man for

himself/, but Nash argues that a coo*erati#e a**roach would lead to better chances of

success because doing so will anger the woman-s friends and the result will be that none of

the men will succeed in their romantic endea#ors e *ro*oses a coo*erati#e *lan in which

the men all hit on the beautiful blonde-s less beautiful friends” 0Brod, 12213 !his is a

creati#e way to *resent an idea !hrough this scene, we were actually able to slowly gras*

the idea of game theory "ohn Nash was wise enough to *ro#e his *oint through this, it is

easily com*rehensible and it e4*lains the logic of oligo*oly-s game theory

!he basic idea of the game theory is that a strategic situation can be thought of as a

game Basically, it in#ol#es an analysis of different strategies when dealing with situations

where the outcome of a *erson-s choice de*ends on the actions of the other *erson 5n other words, the success of one indi#idual is a result to a loss of the other “6or e4am*le, in the

game of chess, you cannot *redict the success of one *layer-s mo#es without assessing the

mo#es of the other *layer” 0.emania, 12%%3 !hat is the economic side of the mo#ie Aside

from that, the mo#ie also focuses on the struggle of Nash as a schizo*hrenic *atient where

his mental instability grows to uncontrolled e4tents and the lines between reality and

delusion begin to occur as his hallucinations ta$e control of his life in e#ery instant All his

struggles as a mathematician, father and husband were clearly em*hasized and how in the

end, he was able to sur#i#e, some others would classify his “se#ere” condition

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“A Beautiful Mind is an ins*iring story about trium*h o#er schizo*hrenia, among the

most de#astating and disabling of all mental disorders A Beautiful Mind succeeds in

realistically describing the disturbed thin$ing, emotion, *erce*tion, and beha#ior that

characterizes the disorder, and shows the difficult tas$ of management of and7or reco#ery

from the disorder” 0"a+ues, 12%%3

"ohn Nash is undeniably a genius but not *erfect e con+uered a lot of challenges

in his life and one of these was schizo*hrenia “Nash was suddenly thrown into a whirlwind

of emotions and sus*icions as he is diagnosed with *aranoid schizo*hrenia 5n a *owerful

and emotional way, it shows us, the #iewers, how difficult an illness li$e .chizo*hrenia can

be to not only face, but o#ercome, something that *eo*le today may not always realize !he

mo#ie did not only ha#e strong *oint and an im*ortant message, but it also deli#ered a

touching and sensiti#e, *artly e#en amusing $ind of way, with the hel* of *owerful actors, agreat screen*lay and e#en a few s*ecial effects to boost it u*” 08oolfrey, 12213 5t was such

an amazing turn of his life when he was able to reco#er and the way his wife handled things

e#en though their child was almost $illed by "ohn himself 5t was a miracle that his sic$ness

did not worsen but it is truly tragic that he died in a car crash e is definitely worth

remembering for his ideas9es*ecially how the game theory has changed how mar$ets

interact with each other 5t was able to untangle the deadloc$ of oligo*oly !he mo#ie

stunningly highlights the #alue of a #ery cle#er man who gains the trium*h of the souls and a

beautiful heart, mainly through the lo#e, faith and strength of his lo#ely wife 6or us, A

Beautiful Mind was not just a movie; it was life, a beautiful one, and a showpiece in every

sense of the word.

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