print email comment close A Brilliant Madness URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/nash/ Description: Site provides a biographical portrait of Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash. Includes suggestions for further reading, an overview of game theory, excerpts from an in-depth interview with Nash, timeline on the history of treating mental illness, and a teacher's guide. April 28, 2002 is the first airing of this program, a part of the PBS television series American Experience . Publisher: PBS Online; WGBH Extra Keywords notablemathematicians Library of Congress Subject Headings: Game theory Mathematicians -- United States Mental illness -- Personal narratives Nash, John F., 1928- Paranoid schizophrenics People LII Database Information: Record 11721 created by Blaine Waterman on 04/08/2002 Last modification on 10/04/2004 Published: 04/08/2002   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/11721