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Arguably the most famous scientist of the 20th century, Einstein is a resident scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study while John Nash is a graduate student at Princeton (the Institute, while not affiliated with Princeton, is located near the university campus). Nasar draws numerous comparisons between Nash and Einstein, discussing their shared eccentricities and devotion to studying seemingly impossible problems. Nash and Einstein meet briefly while Nash is a graduate student; Nash shares an idea about “gravity, friction, and radiation” that he has been working on, and Einstein tells Nash that he “had better study some more physics.”
Albert Einstein Quotes in A Beautiful Mind
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Nash was always on the lookout for problems. “He was very much aware of unsolved problems,” said Milnor. “He really cross-examined people on what were the important problems. It showed a tremendous amount of ambition.” In this search, as in so much else, Nash displayed an uncommon measure of self-confidence and self-importance. On one occasion, not long after his arrival at Princeton, he went to see Einstein and sketched some ideas he had for amending quantum theory.
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Albert Einstein Quotes in A Beautiful Mind
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Nash was always on the lookout for problems. “He was very much aware of unsolved problems,” said Milnor. “He really cross-examined people on what were the important problems. It showed a tremendous amount of ambition.” In this search, as in so much else, Nash displayed an uncommon measure of self-confidence and self-importance. On one occasion, not long after his arrival at Princeton, he went to see Einstein and sketched some ideas he had for amending quantum theory.
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