2.Carnegie Institute of Technology (A Beautiful Mind)

2.Carnegie Institute of Technology

Nash went Pittsburgh for learning chemical engineer. However, the interest of to mathematics complied him to spend time on the Mobius Knots and Diophantine equation instead of the engineer lab.

            In Pittsburgh was full of industries pollutions. The Carnegie Institute of Technology was on the half way of the mountain. Like Richard Cherty said “This place was very backward.” None of the noble people would send their children to this school because its environment was very awful. (Carnegie became a very good university during the war)

            Nash came to Pittsburgh was in June 1945. He lost his interest in engineering in the first semester because he said he did not life standards, and he always made lots of troubles in laboratory. When he struggled in the lab, there were a large group of gifted students came to this school like famous writer John Synge and Alexander Weinstein (he worked with Einstein). At the same time, he started to be fascinated by math. Many math professors was shocked by Nash. At first, Nash hesitated that whether the job could make a living for. However, he still chose it.

            In the new school, lots of students found their similarities with each other, although they did not in these old schools. Nevertheless, Nash did not find similar one. In spite of teachers’ high expectation on him, other students still thought him as an odd one. Other students tried to make friends, but they could not bear Nash’ bad temper and wired thoughts. So, he was very lonely at that time. He was like a child, when other people made fun of him, he just knew used his own way of protect himself.

            There was a math competition called William Lowell Putnam Math Competition. Nash was very confident at that time. Nonetheless, he never got the first five prize. He was frustrated even he won enough honor from all over the world, he still could not forget the depression brought by the competition.

            Nash would help the teacher Richard Duffin to solve the problem with examples and counter-examples when teacher went to wrong way. The student Bott described Nash “He was infinitely more sophisticated than the rest of us. He understood the difficult point naturally. When Duffin got stunk, Nash could back him up. The rest of us didn’t understand the techniques you needed in this new medium”

            Before the graduation, he was selected by three top universities. He chose to Princeton University because this school seeks talent with strong eagerness, and it is full the people in the math field. 

            Lefschetz helped Nash to find a job during the summer in White Oak, Washington. Nash always walked around alone, and did not do a lot of work.

           

Thoughts: Nash was a very wired person; he never fit in any group of people since he was a child. Even though he went a school where has lots of gifted students like him, he still was alone. Defiantly, he is genius because he has amazing acumen on math. He could use the way that other people could not even consider to solve the new problem. Loneliness was also the one of the significant reason why Nash could be a better student. But the loneliness also could be a dangerous bomb that ambushed inside him.

Frist Chapter Bluefield

1.Bluefield

Nash was born in Bluefield, West Virginia. They have been there since they parents married. They church minsters hosted the marriage, and not lots of people came to this marriage. They planed to travel to North as a marriage tour.

            The old Nash was a well-educated, incisive, diligent and traditional man. He was from New England. They had three children. Nash’s mother was a teacher, and she founded a school called Mary Nash School. Old Nash’s childhood was all about Church. Old Nash’s mother was a very intelligent person that raises three children by her own after their drunk father left. That’s also why Old Nash could not expose himself to his children.

            After getting into Texas Agricultural&Mechanical, Old Nash devoted himself to the technology. Then he joined the army after graduation during the WWI. Instead of being a teacher in university, he had been worked at Appalachian Power Company (American Electric Power) for thirty-eight years.

            Margaret Virginia Martin, who is Nash’s mother and has the opposite personality to Old Nash, was a beautiful and cultured young woman, and played important role in Nash’s life. She learned four languages in school, and worked as a teacher before her married to Old Nash.

            It was embarrassing for Old Nash that his wife worked outside, so he did not allow Virginia to work and believe he could make living for the family.

During 1920s, Bluefield was connected to the big city and developed a lot. At first, there were lots of merchants. Later, more and more scholars who appealed by those big companies appeared at this town.

Because of the hardworking, Nash family had a middle class life even during the economy depression, the family still had a good life.

Four years after the marriage, Nash came to this world, people liked to called Johnny. He was an odd boy ,who is introversive and isolated. His relatives all thought he was a nerd that he always read when other kids were playing the toys and had fun. He was not a prodigy, but very smart and acute. His mother was his best teacher and friend. He liked books and loved to do some experiments. Once, he answer then question when other kids did not understand how the person complete this amazing performance.  His parents wanted him to make friends with other so that they asked him to attend some group activities, he did go for pleasing his mom, but he did not achieve what his parents expected. Nash was good at math since he was young. He went Carnegie University for studying math.

Nash was too different from other people so people around him did not understand what he was doing sometimes. Later, he started to use electricity to make some pranks. Sometimes some pranks caused explosions. He was so greedy about books that he teacher admired him. Then, he won a prize that only 10 students could win it, so he was sent to Carnegie University . 

A beautiful mind (Prologue)

John Forbes Nash is math genius as the book describes “inventor of a theory of rational behavior, visionary of the thing machine.” John Nash is the unique in the world. He faced everything existed on the world with strongly skeptical attitude because he was so extremely rational and independent that he judged every with mathematical methods in daily life. Once time, he even asked a person why he said greeting words to him. When he was young, he was surrounded by many gifted scientists like Albert Einstein and John von Neumann, but he never followed one of them, instead of that, insist to work in his own way.  His thought was totally different from others. He did not think in a common way as normal people, but in a way that did not have any logical rule to follow and even came from an imagination sometimes. Just like Donald Newman said “Everyone else would climb a peak by looking for a path somewhere on the mountain. John Nash would climb another mountain altogether and from that distant peak would shine a searchlight back onto the first peak” He was like a recluse in this world because he never got along with his colleagues even they worked together all the time.

People who knew him all thought him like a ghost, isolated and weird. To those judgments, John Nash chose to pay all attention to what he believed in or forced on.

John Nash contributed so much to the math world. Although he was expert on math, but he did not think so, and he paid more attention on those “small” details ignored by other math experts. In addition, he founded a mutually beneficial theory in the game theory which even Neumann could not find that.

Late, because of the broke his chaos private life, he got paranoid schizophrenia and was forced to diagnose. This schizophrenia was hardly recovered. John Nash started to believe he could understand lots of things like numbers on the newspaper that other could not understand.

During the 70s and 80s, he started to search other fields like religions and math magazines.  

How to set up a computer(final)

How to set up a Mac Pro 15 Inches computer

Nowadays, all the people start to use Apple’s computers especially the mac pro computer becomes increasingly popular all over the world. Computer, as the one of the most important tool in the modern society, are applied in everywhere now like works, entertainment and even study. Thus, even the younger and elder people begin to use mac computers because of its wide used range. People have to learn how to set up a computer before they start to use it.

First step after you buy a Mac Pro inches computer from a store(all the Mac Pro computer has the same the system, so the all computers have the same steps to set up), when you unboxing the computer box, pay attention to those paper in the packaging, such as the user guide, but usually no one would read it. The guide will be useful for a people who never set up a computer before. It explains most of things happen in the computer. Second, turn on the computer, OS X(mac system) after you pop the CD into the CD room. The CD room is on the right side of the computer. Remember to make sure the computer does not power down during the whole process of the setting up computer. Then, the set up assistant will come out. You just need to follow the guide. It will guide you to arrange you workspace, user’s profile, password for this computer and other personal system preference during this process. You make those choices depend on your preferences. Then, the last step is the check the software update.

Third, when all the system set up is already done, and the desktop shows up. You can adjust the battery performance to balance or entertainment. Those all rely on what you are going to do on the computer. Last step, you can download some software that you like to use like skype and itunes. Then, you can enjoy this computer.