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The idea of a common biological cause for the association between psychological distress and creativity is clearly an attractive one.
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Researchers have suggested a new theory for why neurotic unhappiness and creativity are often found in the same person. But is the assumption that creative people are more neurotic actually true?
Surfaces like this are able to be described thanks to the work of Nash.
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The Nobel Prize winning mathematician made lasting contributions in the fields of game theory and topology. Famously portrayed by Russell Crowe in the movie A Beautiful Mind, he died May 23 at age 86.
The Nash bargaining solution was a seminal contribution to Game Theory.
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The award-winning mathematician gave his name to a concept in game theory that has many applications, from economics to the survival of meerkat colonies.