I have had a certain amount of interest concerning John Forbes Nash Jr. ever since Julie and I saw the very loosely-based movie on his life, “A Beautiful Mind.” I also liked the fact that he was born in Bluefield, West Virginia — only a hop, skip and jump from Huntington — and I could claim a certain amount of kinship. The man was a mathematical genius, a schizophrenic and pretty odd.
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