In 1953, Nash is invited to the Pentagon to study encrypted enemy telecommunications, which he manages to decipher mentally. He publishes an article on his theory, earning him an appointment at MIT where he chooses Sol and Bender over Hansen to join him. Hansen quotes Adam Smith and advocates "every man for himself", but Nash argues that a cooperative approach would lead to better chances of success and develops a new concept of governing dynamics.
Determined to publish his own original idea, Nash is inspired when he and his classmates discuss how to approach a group of women at a bar. He meets fellow math and science graduate students Sol, Ainsley, and Bender, as well as his roommate Charles Herman, a literature student.
In 1947, John Nash arrives at Princeton University as co-recipient, with Martin Hansen, of the Carnegie Scholarship for mathematics. It was also nominated for Best Actor, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup, and Best Original Score. It went on to gross over $313 million worldwide and won four Academy Awards, for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress. Early in the film, Nash begins to develop paranoid schizophrenia and endures delusional episodes while watching the burden his condition brings on his wife Alicia and friends.Ī Beautiful Mind was released theatrically in the United States on December 21, 2001. The story begins in Nash's days as a graduate student at Princeton University.
The film stars Russell Crowe as Nash, along with Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg, Judd Hirsch, Josh Lucas, Anthony Rapp, and Christopher Plummer in supporting roles. It was inspired by the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1997 book of the same name by Sylvia Nasar.
The film was directed by Ron Howard, from a screenplay written by Akiva Goldsman. A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American biographical drama film based on the life of the American mathematician John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics and Abel Prize winner.