A Beautiful Mind

by

Sylvia Nasar

Kuhn is a Princeton math professor and a close friend of John Nash. He is described as a “shrewd, vigorous, sophisticated man” who—unlike other academics—tends to take a close interest in other people’s lives. Kuhn and Nash meet as graduate students at Princeton, and Kuhn directly observes Nash’s mental deterioration over the years.
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Harold Kuhn Character Timeline in A Beautiful Mind

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Prologue
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...to these seminars, though he was not technically affiliated with the university), Nash’s close friend, Harold Kuhn , a Princeton math professor, told Nash that he could expect a phone call from... (full context)