A Beautiful Mind
As a young boy, John Nash detached himself from all outside contact and surrounded himself with books. Early isolation led to his antisocial behavior and disregard for other human beings he found to be inferior to his intellectual level. Nash's parents constantly attempted to make John into more of a "well-rounded student;" he did so, however, without becoming attached to anyone or anything. His social immaturity would plague him throughout his life and would make him an outcast in the eyes of fellow students in high school and college. Some of his childish pranks involved causing an explosion in a chemistry lab, shocking people by running a current through his arms, and replacing a light bulb in a light fixture with water. A Beautiful Mind successfully shows John Nash's development from a child into an eventual mathematical genius.
A Beautiful Mind portrays Nash as a lonely human being trapped in his own world; a world that may have led to his......
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