While coming into work on this morning i was thinking about John Nash,. He was the Mathematician who was killed in May in a car crash in the USA. He was suffering from a paranoid psychosis when he produced his contribution to Games Theory. it was this branch of Games Theory that contributed most to America`s outlook during the Cold War and has probably in turn added to the nature of globalisation in the last 30 years. Is it not interesting that an academic suffering from a paranoid psychosis ( Watch Russell Crowe in the film A Beautiful Mind ). And that this branch of mathematics created in paranoia serves a superpower in the state of collective psychosis and paranoia. Does our sense of how the world works reflect our inner psychological state? And what does that say about the after effects of Saturdays Paris attacks.
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