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I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I'm not in the position.
It's only in the mysterious equations of love that any logical reasons can be found.
I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.
As a graduate student I studied mathematics fairly broadly, and I was fortunate enough, besides developing the idea which led to 'Non-Cooperative Games,' also to make a nice discovery relating to manifolds and real algebraic varieties.
I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.
People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
I went to M.I.T. in the summer of 1951 as a 'C.L.E. Moore Instructor.' I had been an instructor at Princeton for one year after obtaining my degree in 1950. It seemed desirable more for personal and social reasons than academic ones to accept the higher-paying instructorship at M.I.T.
I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.
To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.
In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
I later spent ... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.
You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.
There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
In a dream it's typical not to be rational.
I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.
