John admits that he wants to go beyond this limitation and make his life count for something.John’s personality continues to be abrasive, and when he loses a board game, he storms off, saying the game is flawed. John does manage to hang around with a smart group of guys, and they pontificate about how important Math is but say that it will never lead one to higher truth. ![]() He skips classes to pursue his theories in the natural environment, but his disdain for academic expectations does not sit well with his instructors, one of whom tells him that he’ll likely not be recommended for placement in a coveted internship at Wheeler Laboratories.His roommate, Charles Herman, challenges the “chips on both of John’s shoulders,” and John confesses that a childhood teacher once told him that he had “twice the brain but half the heart” he needed. John is, of course, brilliant, but he lacks social graces and comes across as rude, insensitive, arrogant, and independent. A BEAUTIFUL MIND is the story of John Nash, a Carnegie Scholarship genius who attends Princeton University in 1947.
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