A Beautiful Mind: Chapter 22 Summary & Analysis

Later in his life, John Nash wrote in a letter to his sister Martha that only three individuals had ever brought him “any real happiness.” Before 1952, Nash had never experienced mutual attraction with any of the men he had loved—until he met Ervin Thorson, also a RAND employee, whom Nash referred to obliquely in letters as his “special friend,” “T.” Thorson, an intensely private man, never married, and eventually quit his job at the age of 47; he moved back to his hometown of Pomona and became a “virtual recluse.”