Books by John Nash

Comedy / Characters: 3 male, 7 female, 4 extras (women)Scenery: InteriorOrphaned as a child to be raised by his scientist uncle deep in the Canadian woods, Romeo Montague has never set eyes upon a woman in his over twenty-one years. That is all about to change when two Americans - Larry McNeil and Rex Simons - stumble across him in the woods and invite him to visit them in the States. He arrives to find a house full of women, including Larry's two outgoing sisters, Connie and Billie, and

The Soul and Its Destiny explores the soul and its evolutionary journey: what it is, where it came from, and where it is going. It honors traditional religious and philosophical testimony but also draws on modern esoteric teachings. Made in the image of God, the soul is a functional and structural trinity. The soul makes us conscious, builds our external forms, and urges us forward on our journey. Two of its structural layers link us to the lower kingdoms and to overshadowing higher realities, while the middle principle expresses our distinctive humanity and divine potential. The book examines the soul's origins and development up to the present. It explores the soul's future-our future because we are souls-and offers practical advice on how to move more quickly toward our glorious destiny. The soul is alive, striving to grow, waiting to be known and embraced; yearning to reach out. We may become aware of the soul through the arts and religion. But when we respond to its call, our consciousness expands, and we are led to a life of outreach, caring relationships, and service. Like the masters who beckon, we are destined to serve both on this planet and beyond.

When John Nash won the Nobel prize in economics in 1994, many people were surprised to learn that he was alive and well. Since then, Sylvia Nasar's celebrated biography A Beautiful Mind, the basis of a new major motion picture, has revealed the man. The Essential John Nash reveals his work--in his own words. This book presents, for the first time, the full range of Nash's diverse contributions not only to game theory, for which he received the Nobel, but to pure mathematics--from Riemannian geometry and partial differential equations--in which he commands even greater acclaim among academics. Included are nine of Nash's most influential papers, most of them written over the decade beginning in 1949. From 1959 until his astonishing remission three decades later, the man behind the concepts "e;Nash equilibrium"e; and "e;Nash bargaining"e;--concepts that today pervade not only economics but nuclear strategy and contract talks in major league sports--had lived in the shadow of a condition diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenia. In the introduction to this book, Nasar recounts how Nash had, by the age of thirty, gone from being a wunderkind at Princeton and a rising mathematical star at MIT to the depths of mental illness. In his preface, Harold Kuhn offers personal insights on his longtime friend and colleague; and in introductions to several of Nash's papers, he provides scholarly context. In an afterword, Nash describes his current work, and he discusses an error in one of his papers. A photo essay chronicles Nash's career from his student days in Princeton to the present. Also included are Nash's Nobel citation and autobiography. The Essential John Nash makes it plain why one of Nash's colleagues termed his style of intellectual inquiry as "e;like lightning striking."e; All those inspired by Nash's dazzling ideas will welcome this unprecedented opportunity to trace these ideas back to the exceptional mind they came from.