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On 02/29/2016 04:35 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:

> The story reminded me of "A Beautiful Mind" by Sylvia Nasar, about
> mathematician John Nash who suffered from mental illness in the
> 1970s-80's(?) but later recovered and won the Nobel Prize in economics.
> The book is excellent and I recommend it if you find that sort of thing
> interesting.  They made a movie from it that was popular but I gather
> was Hollywood-fluffified as one could expect (I haven't seen it).

I'm sure it was fluffified, but it is a good movie.

--
~Ethan~