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Last weekend we streamed “A Beautiful Mind” a true story staring Russel Crowe. In the 2001 movie he portrays John Nash, a student and MIT professor and the creator of a mathematical strategy called the “Nash Equilibrium”. I’ll provide a Wikipedia link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium in case anyone is interested because it’s several grades above my pay grade to be able to explain it.
In the biographical movie he develops paranoid schizophrenia early in life and suffers delusional episodes but manages to a certain degree to overcome his mental illness with the help of his caring wife and without medication and goes on to win the Nobel prize in Economics.
Another great movie “Hidden Figures” staring Octavia Spencer and Taraji Henson portrayed as mathematicians who calculate flight trajectories for NASA missions during the early 1960’s including John Glenn’s historic flight. It’s a true biographical film that I haven’t seen since its release in 2016 and I hope to see it again someday soon on a steaming service.
