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A Brilliant Madness

辉煌的疯狂
April 28, 2002  ·  American Experience (PBS)  ·  原文

Harold Kuhn: Mathematicians have the propensity to be eccentric more than most people, but there was no hint that it would shade over into fully delusional, psychotic behavior.

哈罗德·库恩:数学家比大多数人更倾向于古怪,但没有迹象表明它会演变成完全的妄想、精神病行为。

We were all aware that he had a great career that was shattered in a few minutes.

我们都知道他有一个伟大的职业生涯,但几分钟后就被毁掉了。

Felix Browder: It was a very disastrous fall of someone who was promising beyond any reasonable limit.

菲利克斯·布劳德:对于一个承诺超出任何合理限度的人来说,这是一次非常灾难性的失败。

Herta Newman: He was so incredibly himself, so special and so unusual.

赫塔·纽曼:他是如此令人难以置信,如此特别,如此不寻常。

He was just an oddity and there was something sweet about it.

他只是一个奇怪的人,但其中有一些甜蜜的东西。

Sylvia Nasar: The idea that someone who had been mentally ill and impoverished and really on the fringes of society for decades was being considered for a Nobel Prize, I thought that was amazing.

西尔维娅·纳萨尔:一个几十年来患有精神疾病、贫困且真正处于社会边缘的人被考虑获得诺贝尔奖,我认为这真是太棒了。

John Nash: Madness can be an escape.

约翰·纳什:疯狂可以是一种逃避。

If things are not so good, you may be want to imagine something better.

如果事情不太好,你可能会想要想象更好的事情。

In madness, I thought I was the most important person of the world and people like the Pope would be just like enemies, who would try to put me down in some way.

在疯狂中,我认为我是世界上最重要的人,像教皇这样的人就像敌人一样,他们会试图以某种方式打压我。

Narrator: In September 1949, the world learned that the Soviet Union had joined the United States as a nuclear power.

旁白:1949年9月,全世界得知苏联已加入美国成为核国家。

The shocking news intensified fears in the U.S. — and put a premium on mathematicians.

这一令人震惊的消息加剧了美国的恐惧,并提高了数学家的价值。

Mathematicians had helped win WWII, now there was hope they could protect America's strategic edge.

数学家帮助赢得了第二次世界大战,现在他们有希望保护美国的战略优势。

Narrator: Princeton University boasted the most elite math department in the world; each of its graduate students was handpicked.

旁白:普林斯顿大学拥有世界上最精英的数学系;它的每一位研究生都是经过精心挑选的。

That year, one stood out — a 20-year-old from West Virginia named John Forbes Nash.

那一年,有一个人脱颖而出——来自西弗吉尼亚州的 20 岁男孩约翰·福布斯·纳什 (John Forbes Nash)。

Sylvia Nasar: These young mathematicians were all pretty cocky, but he towered over them in arrogance and confidence and also in eccentricity.

西尔维娅·纳萨尔(Sylvia Nasar):这些年轻的数学家都非常自大,但他在傲慢、自信和古怪方面比他们高出一筹。

Mel Hausner: John Nash was always an entity unto himself.

梅尔·豪斯纳:约翰·纳什始终是一个独立的个体。

When John walked into the room you knew that John walked into the room.

当约翰走进房间时,您就知道约翰走进了房间。

I think he thought of himself as superior, intellectually, mathematically superior.

我认为他认为自己很优秀,在智力和数学上都很优秀。

We thought highly of ourselves and each other, but with John it was double.

我们对自己和彼此评价很高,但对于约翰来说,这是双重的。

John was just very clearly above it.

约翰显然高于它。

Narrator: Nash rarely attended class, claiming it would blunt his originality.

旁白:纳什很少上课,声称这会削弱他的原创性。

He was obsessed with making a name for himself, and was always on the hunt for problems that had defeated other mathematicians.

他痴迷于让自己出名,并且总是在寻找击败其他数学家的问题。

John Nash: There is something of that in my approach to mathematics.

约翰·纳什:我的数学方法中有一些这样的内容。

I have tended to think that the thing to do is to get away from what other people are doing and not to follow directly in anyone's recent work.

我倾向于认为要做的事情就是摆脱其他人正在做的事情,而不是直接跟随任何人最近的工作。

Felix Browder: He didn't study anything.

菲利克斯·布劳德:他什么也没学。

He didn't assimilate other people's work.

他没有吸收别人的工作成果。

What he did was to try to find his own way of solving very difficult problems.

他所做的就是尝试找到自己的方法来解决非常困难的问题。

And he thought he had the talent to fulfill these ambitions of being the world's greatest mathematician.

他认为自己有能力实现成为世界上最伟大数学家的抱负。

Narrator: Nash soon acquired a reputation for being both brilliant and odd.

旁白:纳什很快就获得了既聪明又古怪的声誉。

In the quadrangle, he rode a bicycle in figure-eights, over and over, and paced the hallways obsessively whistling Bach¹s Little Fugue.

在四合院里,他骑着一辆八字形自行车,一遍又一遍地在走廊里踱步,着迷地吹着巴赫的《小赋格曲》。

Paul Samuelson: Fine Hall is where the mathematicians met.

Paul Samuelson:Fine Hall 是数学家们聚会的地方。

I went there, and I looked around.

我去了那里,环顾四周。

I knew a number of the people but I didn't know them all, and I thought this is the strangest group of people in the world!

我认识一些人,但我不认识他们所有人,我认为这是世界上最奇怪的一群人!

Not only was Nash not an exception to that but I think he was quite far off the chart.

纳什不仅不是例外,而且我认为他离排行榜还很远。

Felix Browder: He obviously irritated some people by what I think they regarded as extremely eccentric behavior.

菲利克斯·布劳德:他的行为显然激怒了一些人,我认为他们认为这是极其古怪的行为。

He was certainly not a conformist to anyone's standard.

他当然不是一个墨守成规的人。

Narrator: Even as a boy growing up in Bluefield, West Virginia, deep in the Appalachian Mountains, John Nash stood out.

旁白:约翰·纳什在西弗吉尼亚州阿巴拉契亚山脉深处的布卢菲尔德长大,尽管他还是个男孩,但他却脱颖而出。

John Nash: I was in grade school.

约翰·纳什:我当时在上小学。

I would be doing arithmetic, and I found myself working with larger numbers than other students would be using.

我会做算术,我发现自己处理的数字比其他学生使用的数字要大。

I would have several digits, and they would have maybe two or three digits.

我会有几个数字,他们可能有两个或三个数字。

Martha Nash Legg: One time one of the teachers had said he couldn't do the math — this was like fourth grade.

玛莎·纳什·莱格:有一次,一位老师说他不会做数学——这就像四年级一样。

And my mother laughed, because it was, obviously the point was he was doing it differently.

我母亲笑了,因为很明显,重点是他的做法不同。

I think my parents always knew that John was bright.

我想我的父母一直都知道约翰很聪明。

Narrator: His father, John, Sr., was an electrical engineer; his mother, Virginia, a former teacher, tutored John at home, and had him skip a grade in school.

旁白:他的父亲老约翰是一名电气工程师。他的母亲弗吉尼亚曾经是一名教师,她在家辅导约翰,并让他在学校跳级。

John Nash: One time, somebody suggested that I was a prodigy.

约翰·纳什:有一次,有人说我是个神童。

Another time it was suggested that I should be called "bug brains," because I had ideas, but they were sort of buggy or not perfectly sound.

还有一次,有人建议我应该被称为“错误大脑”,因为我有想法,但它们有点错误或不完美。

Don Reynolds: He took his share of abuse from certain groups.

唐·雷诺兹:他从某些团体那里受到了一些虐待。

The brain working a little bit faster than anybody else's so everybody else felt like they had to ridicule it a little bit.

他的大脑运转得比其他人快一点,所以其他人都觉得他们不得不嘲笑它一点。

Narrator: His senior year in high school John won a Westinghouse scholarship, one of only ten awarded nationally.

旁白:高中四年级时,约翰获得了西屋电气奖学金,这是全国仅有的十个奖学金之一。

Three years later, he graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology with a master¹s degree in math.

三年后,他从卡内基理工学院毕业,获得数学硕士学位。

His advisor wrote him a one-sentence recommendation: "This man is a genius."

他的导师给他写了一封简短的推荐信:“这个人是个天才。”

Sylvia Nasar: The first thing that he did at Princeton, which wowed everyone and made his reputation, was he invented this game which was known around the common room as "Nash."

西尔维娅·纳萨尔(Sylvia Nasar):他在普林斯顿大学做的第一件事,让所有人惊叹并赢得了声誉,就是他发明了这个在公共休息室被称为“纳什”的游戏。

Narrator: Nash¹s deceptively simple game of strategy swept the math department.

旁白:纳什看似简单的策略游戏席卷了数学系。

Before long, he applied his interest in games to a new field of mathematics called game theory.

不久之后,他将对游戏的兴趣应用到了一个新的数学领域,称为博弈论。

Game theory attempted to explain the dynamics of human conflict by analyzing strategies used in games.

博弈论试图通过分析博弈中使用的策略来解释人类冲突的动态。

Sylvia Nasar: Nash was interested in everything in mathematics.

西尔维娅·纳萨尔:纳什对数学的一切都感兴趣。

But what he was really interested in were the big problems.

但他真正感兴趣的是大问题。

At that moment in time game theory was the sexy, glamorous field.

那时博弈论是一个性感、迷人的领域。

If you wanted to make a splash, it was a good place to be.

如果你想引起轰动,那是一个好地方。

Narrator: Just a year after arriving at Princeton, he began work on an idea that challenged the conventional thinking in game theory.

旁白:到达普林斯顿大学一年后,他开始研究一个挑战博弈论传统思维的想法。

Mel Hausner: Classical game theory was basically two people playing against each other, a two-person game, in which if one person wins the other person loses.

梅尔·豪斯纳:古典博弈论基本上是两个人互相对抗,一个两人的游戏,如果一个人赢了,另一个人就输了。

Suppose you have many players, game theory got into a phase that people couldn't really deal with it.

假设你有很多玩家,博弈论就进入了人们无法真正应对的阶段。

They didn't know how to state the problem.

他们不知道如何陈述问题。

Harold Kuhn: If: we could make a theoretical model that would answer questions of "Why do you bluff in poker?" "Why would you bet when you have a low hand?" "Why would you fail to bet if you have a high hand?" If we could analyze things like that, then we could handle real life problems in economics, in business, in politics.

Harold Kuhn:如果:我们可以建立一个理论模型来回答“你为什么在扑克中虚张声势?”的问题。 “当你手牌低的时候,你为什么还要下注呢?” “你手牌高,为什么会赌失败?”如果我们能够分析这样的事情,那么我们就可以解决经济、商业和政治中的现实生活问题。

He had that vision.

他有这样的愿景。

Narrator: Nash¹s insight was another deceptively simple one: he proved that in every game there is a best strategy for each player given the strategies chosen by the other players.

旁白:纳什的见解是另一个看似简单的见解:他证明了在每场比赛中,根据其他玩家选择的策略,每个玩家都有一个最佳策略。

He called it "the equilibrium point." In the spring of 1950, Nash presented his elegant proof.

他称之为“平衡点”。 1950 年春天,纳什提出了他优雅的证明。

He was only 21.

他当时才21岁。

Narrator: Years later, what became known as the "Nash equilibrium" would revolutionize economics.

旁白:多年后,所谓的“纳什均衡”将彻底改变经济学。

But when it was first completed, nobody recognized its potential.

但当它刚建成时,没有人认识到它的潜力。

Not even Nash.

甚至纳什也不行。

Narrator: After receiving his Ph.D., Nash moved to Boston and joined the faculty of MIT.

旁白:获得博士学位后,纳什搬到波士顿并加入麻省理工学院任教。

Students called him the Kid Professor.

学生们称他为小教授。

But he considered himself head and shoulders above his colleagues.

但他认为自己远远高于他的同事。

Felix Browder: Basically John was a out and out and uninhibited and shameless elitist.

菲利克斯·布劳德:基本上约翰是一个不折不扣、不羁、无耻的精英主义者。

He was only interested in people who could operate more or less on the same mental level that he was at.

他只对那些能够或多或少地与他处于相同心理水平的人感兴趣。

Zipporah Levinson: He was very brash, very boastful, very selfish, very egocentric.

Zipporah Levinson:他非常傲慢、非常自夸、非常自私、非常以自我为中心。

His colleagues did not like him especially, but they tolerated him because his mathematics was so brilliant.

他的同事们并不是特别喜欢他,但是他们容忍了他,因为他的数学非常出色。

Donald Newman: I was thinking about a problem, trying to get somewhere with it, and I couldn't and I couldn't and I couldn't.

唐纳德·纽曼:我正在思考一个问题,试图解决它,但我不能,我不能,我不能。

And I went to sleep one night and I dreamt.

有一天晚上我睡觉时做了一个梦。

I did not dream directly of the solution to that problem.

我并没有直接梦想到这个问题的解决方案。

Rather, I dreamt that I met Nash and I asked him the problem, and he told me the answer.

相反,我梦见我遇到了纳什,我问他问题,他告诉我答案。

When I did finally write the paper, I gave him credit.

当我最终写出这篇论文时,我给予了他信任。

It was not my solution; I could not have done it myself.

这不是我的解决方案;我自己做不到。

Herta Newman: He was part of this group of friends that Donald, my husband, had.

赫塔·纽曼:他是我丈夫唐纳德的朋友圈中的一员。

This was a crew who were extremely competitive, and Nash was at the top of the heap.

这是一支极具竞争力的球队,而纳什是其中的佼佼者。

He was the best.

他是最好的。

Narrator: The following year, Nash began his first serious relationship.

旁白:第二年,纳什开始了他的第一段认真的恋爱关系。

Eleanor Stier was a shy, compassionate nurse five years his senior.

埃莉诺·斯蒂尔是一位害羞、富有同情心的护士,比他年长五岁。

Two months after they started dating, Eleanor discovered she was pregnant.

他们开始约会两个月后,埃莉诺发现自己怀孕了。

Narrator: She gave birth to a baby boy and named him John.

旁白:她生了一个男婴,给他起名叫约翰。

Nash refused to pay for the delivery, wouldn't even add his name to the birth certificate.

纳什拒绝支付分娩费用,甚至不愿将自己的名字添加到出生证明上。

Unable to support her son on her own, Eleanor was forced to place him in foster care for much of his childhood.

由于无法独自抚养儿子,埃莉诺被迫将他童年的大部分时间寄养在寄养家庭中。

John Stier: She was pretty hurt, she was very hurt.

约翰·斯蒂尔:她很受伤,她很受伤。

I think she was quite fond of my father and things didn't happen the way she had expected them to.

我认为她非常喜欢我父亲,但事情并没有按照她预期的方式发生。

Narrator: The couple drifted apart.

旁白:夫妻俩渐行渐远。

Nash kept the affair a secret.

纳什对这件事保密。

His parents and colleagues didn¹t even know he had a son.

他的父母和同事甚至不知道他有一个儿子。

Narrator: Not long after breaking up with Eleanor, Nash met Alicia Larde, a 21-year-old from El Salvador and one of his students.

旁白:与埃莉诺分手后不久,纳什遇到了来自萨尔瓦多的 21 岁女孩艾丽西亚·拉德,也是他的学生之一。

A physics major, she was one of only 16 women in a class of 800 at MIT.

她主修物理,是麻省理工学院 800 名班级中仅有的 16 名女生之一。

Herta Newman: She was an extremely attractive girl, and not American.

赫塔·纽曼:她是一个非常有魅力的女孩,但不是美国人。

And I somehow think that that was significant, that she was not your ordinary college girl, that she had also come from a very different place.

我不知何故认为这很重要,她不是普通的女大学生,她也来自一个非常不同的地方。

Alicia Nash: At the time, he was a little bit like the fair-haired boy of the Math Department.

艾丽西亚·纳什:当时,他有点像数学系的金发男孩。

He was, I think, considered very young for his position.

我认为,就他的职位而言,他被认为非常年轻。

And, he was very nice looking, you know.

而且,他长得非常好看,你知道。

Sylvia Nasar: When she was younger she wanted to be another Madam Curie.

西尔维娅·纳萨尔:当她年轻的时候,她想成为另一个居里夫人。

John's ambition was one of the things that attracted Alicia to him.

约翰的野心是吸引艾丽西亚的原因之一。

She had that desire, and she transferred it to him.

她有这个愿望,她把它转移给了他。

Narrator: In February 1957, Alicia and John Nash were married in a small, private ceremony in Washington, DC.

旁白:1957 年 2 月,艾丽西亚和约翰·纳什在华盛顿特区举行了一场小型私人婚礼。

Martha Nash Legg: John was marrying somebody who was intelligent, and that he cared for.

玛莎·纳什·莱格(Martha Nash Legg):约翰要嫁给一个聪明的人,而且他很关心他。

And she obviously cared for him.

而且她显然很关心他。

Everything was great.

一切都很棒。

Narrator: Since arriving at MIT, Nash had solved a series of imposing problems in mathematics, ranging from algebraic geometry to partial differential equations.

旁白:自从来到麻省理工学院以来,纳什解决了一系列数学难题,从代数几何到偏微分方程。

Unlike his work in game theory, these groundbreaking proofs dazzled the mathematical world.

与他在博弈论方面的工作不同,这些开创性的证明让数学界眼花缭乱。

Donald Newman: We would all be climbing the mountain, the mountain being mathematical perfection.

唐纳德·纽曼:我们都会去爬山,这座山在数学上是完美的。

He had a different approach.

他有不同的方法。

We came up this way and he came this way.

我们从这边过来,他也从这边过来。

Narrator: In July 1958, Fortune magazine featured him as one of the brightest stars in mathematics.

旁白:1958 年 7 月,《财富》杂志将他评为数学界最耀眼的明星之一。

He had just turned 30.

他刚满30岁。

Sylvia Nasar: For a mathematician turning 30 is a lot like for a ballet dancer or an athlete.

Sylvia Nasar:对于一名数学家来说,30 岁很像对于一名芭蕾舞演员或运动员来说。

Age is your enemy.

年龄是你的敌人。

Narrator: By his own standards, Nash had fallen short.

旁白:按照纳什自己的标准,他没有达到要求。

For a decade, he had pursued the Fields Medal, mathematics highest honor; that year, he failed to win it again.

十年来,他一直在追求菲尔兹奖,这是数学界的最高荣誉。那一年,他再次未能夺冠。

Paul Samuelson: He was an intensely ambitious person.

保罗·萨缪尔森:他是一个雄心勃勃的人。

He was extremely competitive and he was very bitter that he didn't get it.

他非常有竞争力,但他为自己没有得到而感到非常痛苦。

John Nash: At the time, I had some recognition.

约翰·纳什:当时我有一些认可。

I was making some progress professionally, but I wasn't really at the top I didn¹t have top-level recognition.

我在专业上取得了一些进步,但我并没有真正达到顶峰,我没有得到顶级的认可。

Narrator: He threw himself into solving the Riemann Hypothesis, the Holy Grail of mathematics.

旁白:他全身心投入解决数学圣杯黎曼猜想。

The work was mentally and physically exhausting and ultimately proved futile.

这项工作在精神上和身体上都令人疲惫不堪,最终证明是徒劳的。

He began to worry that his best years were behind him.

他开始担心自己最好的时光已经过去了。

At the same time he learned that Alicia was pregnant.

与此同时,他得知艾丽西亚怀孕了。

Louis Sass: A psychotic break is usually precipitated by some stressful experiences.

路易斯·萨斯(Louis Sass):精神崩溃通常是由一些压力经历引发的。

Often these stressful experiences involve a demand that the person who becomes psychotic take on greater responsibility.

通常,这些压力经历要求精神病患者承担更大的责任。

Narrator: Below his brash and confident surface, John Nash now hid another side of himself, one filled with anxiety, self-doubt, even fear.

旁白:在他傲慢和自信的表面之下,约翰·纳什现在隐藏着自己的另一面,充满焦虑、自我怀疑,甚至恐惧。

It would mark the beginning of a strange and tragic metamorphosis.

这将标志着一场奇怪而悲惨的转变的开始。

Narrator: On New Year's Eve 1958, the Nashes attended a costume party at the home of a colleague.

旁白:1958年除夕夜,纳什一家参加了在同事家里举行的化装舞会。

John went dressed as a baby.

约翰打扮得像个婴儿。

He wore a diaper and spent much of the night curled up in Alicia's lap.

他穿着尿布,整夜大部分时间都蜷缩在艾丽西亚的腿上。

Even to those used to his eccentricities, it was a disturbing scene.

即使对于那些习惯了他的怪癖的人来说,这也是一个令人不安的场景。

A few weeks later, Nash rushed into the common room at MIT and claimed that powers from outer space were sending him coded messages in the New York Times.

几周后,纳什冲进麻省理工学院的公共休息室,在《纽约时报》上声称来自外太空的力量正在向他发送编码信息。

Another incident soon followed.

很快又发生了另一件事。

He interrupted a lecture to announce that he was on the cover of Life magazine -- disguised as Pope John XXIII.

他中断了一场演讲,宣布他伪装成教皇约翰二十三世登上了《生活》杂志的封面。

He knew this, he said, because 23 was his favorite prime number.

他说,他知道这一点,因为 23 是他最喜欢的素数。

Then he began noticing a curious pattern on the MIT campus -- men wearing red ties.

然后他开始注意到麻省理工学院校园里的一个奇怪的现象——男人们都系着红领带。

He was sure they were members of a secret communist organization.

他确信他们是一个秘密共产主义组织的成员。

When the University of Chicago offered him a prestigious position, Nash turned it down.

当芝加哥​​大学向他提供一个享有声望的职位时,纳什拒绝了。

He was already scheduled, he said, to become Emperor of Antarctica.

他说,他已经被安排成为南极洲的皇帝。

Harold Kuhn: John talked about the people from outer space who were destroying his career and the international organizations that were attacking him.

哈罗德·库恩:约翰谈到了来自外太空的人们正在摧毁他的职业生涯,以及正在攻击他的国际组织。

Somebody you've known for a long time, to hear this kind of news is very unsettling.

一个认识很久的人,听到这样的消息是非常不安的。

Alicia Nash: Truly his personality seemed to change in a period of a week or so.

艾丽西亚·纳什:确实,他的性格似乎在一周左右的时间内发生了变化。

It was very fast.

速度非常快。

Paul Samuelson: I mean, you're seeing a mind disintegrate in front of you.

保罗·萨缪尔森:我的意思是,你会看到一个思想在你面前瓦解。

I felt shocked.

我感到震惊。

The math department chairman thought Nash was having a nervous breakdown, and relieved him of his teaching duties in February.

数学系主任认为纳什精神崩溃,并于二月份解除了他的教学职责。

Still, Nash continued to unravel.

尽管如此,纳什还是继续解开谜团。

One night, he painted black spots all over the bedroom wall.

一天晚上,他在卧室的墙上涂满了黑点。

Sylvia Nasar: (v/o) Alicia tried to handle it herself, but at a certain point, it overwhelmed her.

西尔维娅·纳萨尔(Sylvia Nasar):(v/o)艾丽西亚试图自己处理这件事,但在某种程度上,这让她不知所措。

And when she turned to psychiatrists, she was ultimately advised that he should be hospitalized.

当她求助于精神科医生时,她最终被建议让他住院。

Here was this genius and you were going to clap him into a hospital where god knows what might happen.

这是一个天才,你要把他送进医院,天知道会发生什么。

I think it was very tough.

我认为这非常艰难。

John Nash: I didn¹t feel that I belonged locked up.

约翰·纳什:我不觉得自己应该被关起来。

I never went voluntarily.

我从来都不是自愿去的。

Narrator: Nash was taken to McLean Hospital, a private psychiatric facility outside Boston known for treating the wealthy and famous.

旁白:纳什被送往麦克莱恩医院,这是波士顿郊外的一家私人精神病院,以治疗富人和名人而闻名。

He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and given an injection of Thorazine to calm him down.

他被诊断出患有偏执型精神分裂症,并注射了Thorazine来让他平静下来。

His treatment consisted of psychoanalysis; the staff called him "professor."

他的治疗包括精神分析;工作人员称他为“教授”。

Peter Weiden: In those days, many doctors thought schizophrenia was related to problems in childhood, problems in mothering.

彼得·韦登:当时,许多医生认为精神分裂症与童年问题、母亲问题有关。

They didn't know it was a real brain disease and that people are born with a vulnerability to that brain disorder.

他们不知道这是一种真正的脑部疾病,而且人们生来就容易受到这种脑部疾病的影响。

Louis Sass: Conventionally, we define it as a severe mental illness, characterized by hallucinations, delusions or peculiar forms of thinking.

路易斯·萨斯:传统上,我们将其定义为一种严重的精神疾病,其特征是幻觉、妄想或特殊的思维形式。

For example, a schizophrenic may feel that when he looks at you, he may believe that it's not himself who's looking out his own eyes.

例如,精神分裂症患者可能会觉得,当他看着你时,他可能相信从自己的眼睛里看的不是他自己。

Somehow, someone else is actually having his experiences.

不知何故,其他人实际上也有他的经历。

John Nash: A delusional state of mind is like living a dream.

约翰·纳什:妄想的心态就像做梦一样。

Well I knew where I was, I was there on observation, but I was able to think that I was like a victim of a conspiracy.

好吧,我知道我在哪里,我在那里进行观察,但我能够认为我就像一个阴谋的受害者。

Louis Sass: The delusions have often a cosmic quality, a feeling of ominousness.

路易斯·萨斯(Louis Sass):这种妄想通常具有宇宙性,一种不祥的感觉。

Everything that happens around you takes on a tremendous significance.

你周围发生的一切都具有巨大的意义。

John Nash: In madness, I saw myself as some sort of messenger, or having a special function.

约翰·纳什:在疯狂中,我将自己视为某种信使,或者具有特殊的功能。

Like the Muslim concept with Muhammad, the messenger of Allah.

就像穆斯林对穆罕默德的概念一样,穆罕默德是安拉的使者。

Sylvia Nasar: Someone who visited him in the hospital asked him, how could you, a mathematician, someone who is committed to rationality, how could you believe that aliens from outer space were communicating with you?

西尔维娅·纳萨尔:有人去医院探望他,问他,你作为一个数学家,一个致力于理性的人,怎么会相信来自外太空的外星人正在与你交流呢?

Nash's response was, these ideas came to me the same way my mathematical ideas did, so I believed them.

纳什的回答是,这些想法就像我的数学想法一样,所以我相信它们。

Narrator: Virginia visited John at McLean, but could hardly bear to see her son in such a state.

旁白:弗吉尼亚去麦克莱恩拜访了约翰,但她很难忍受看到儿子陷入这样的状态。

Martha Nash Legg: It broke her, I guess.

玛莎·纳什·莱格:我想这让她崩溃了。

It was devastating.

这是毁灭性的。

You can imagine that every day she would wake up and everyday she would go to bed, and she would have this on her.

你可以想象,她每天起床、睡觉,身上都会带着这个。

Narrator: Alicia urged his colleagues to visit, hoping their support would help John get back on his feet.

旁白:艾丽西亚敦促他的同事前来拜访,希望他们的支持能够帮助约翰重新站起来。

Zipporah Levinson: All the mathematicians were very upset, because this was a great genius that was lost.

Zipporah Levinson:所有的数学家都非常沮丧,因为这位伟大的天才就这样消失了。

Donald Newman: He said, "Newman, they are not going to let me out until I'm normal, but that'll never be.

唐纳德·纽曼:他说,“纽曼,在我恢复正常之前他们不会让我出去,但那永远不会。

I never was."

我从来没有。”

John Nash: I began to realize that I would not be getting out of the hospital unless I conformed and behaved normally.

约翰·纳什:我开始意识到,除非我顺从并表现正常,否则我无法出院。

So I, in part I would do that as if I would be sweeping the delusions under a rug and they were able to come out later on, and could be triggered, and I would move very quickly to accepting it again.

所以我,在某种程度上,我会这样做,就好像我会把这些妄想扫到地毯下一样,它们稍后会出现,并且可能被触发,我会很快再次接受它。

Narrator: Nash retained a lawyer, who secured his release after 50 days of hospitalization.

旁白:纳什聘请了一位律师,在住院 50 天后,律师确保他获释。

Within weeks, he resigned from MIT, withdrew all the money from his pension fund and announced he was leaving for Europe.

几周之内,他从麻省理工学院辞职,从养老基金中提取了所有资金,并宣布他将前往欧洲。

Narrator: Alicia, who had given birth while John was in McLean, felt she had no choice but to go with him.

旁白:艾丽西亚在约翰在麦克莱恩期间生下了孩子,她觉得自己别无选择,只能和他一起去。

They left behind their newborn son with Alicia¹s mother.

他们把刚出生的儿子留给了艾丽西亚的母亲。

In July 1959, the Nashes arrived in Paris to find the city in turmoil.

1959年7月,纳什夫妇抵达巴黎,发现这座城市陷入混乱。

The streets reverberated with strikes, explosions and mass demonstrations against the nuclear arms race.

街道上充斥着罢工、爆炸和反对核军备竞赛的大规模示威活动。

A week later, Nash suddenly took off on his own.

一周后,纳什突然独立了。

He went to Luxembourg and announced he wanted to give up his American citizenship.

他前往卢森堡并宣布他想放弃美国公民身份。

He was turned away.

他被拒之门外。

John Nash: I got to Geneva and I thought of a way of being a refugee.

约翰·纳什:我到了日内瓦,我想到了一种成为难民的方法。

They had a slogan, "city of refuge." I envisioned a hidden world where the Communists and the anti-Communists were really the same, they were sort of schemers.

他们有一个口号:“避难城”。我想象了一个隐藏的世界,那里的共产党人和反共分子实际上是一样的,他们都是阴谋家。

I had the idea that some of the people, like Eisenhower and the Pope and the powers that be might be unsympathetic to me.

我有这样的想法,有些人,比如艾森豪威尔和教皇以及当权者可能不会同情我。

These thoughts on the surface are not rational, but there could be a situation where there were -- things were not what they might seem.

这些想法表面上看并不理性,但可能存在一种情况——事情并不像看上去的那样。

Louis Sass: If to be mad is to be in error, there's a kind of contradiction there, isn't there, between what it is to be mad in the eyes of the world and what it is to have these experiences in which you¹re having a sense of revelation and you're noticing features of the world that other people seem to be too stupid or too blind to recognize.

路易斯·萨斯:如果生气就意味着犯错误,那么在世人眼中的疯狂与拥有这些经历之间存在着一种矛盾,不是吗?在这些经历中,你有一种启示感,你注意到世界的特征,而其他人似乎太愚蠢或太盲目而无法识别。

Felix Browder: Most of the time when he was trying to give up his citizenship, he was being followed around by the naval attaché, who had as his commission to get his passport back and give it to Alicia.

菲利克斯·布劳德:大多数时候,当他试图放弃公民身份时,海军武官就跟着他,他的任务是取回他的护照并将其交给艾丽西亚。

And so he chased him around Europe.

于是他就在欧洲各地追赶他。

Alicia Nash: I went to the American Embassy in Paris, and I asked for help.

艾丽西亚·纳什:我去了美国驻巴黎大使馆,寻求帮助。

I said, "I don¹t know what to do, you know.

我说:“我不知道该怎么办,你知道。

But I don't want him to get into trouble."

但我不想让他惹上麻烦。”

Narrator: Nash wandered Europe for nine months before embassy officials arranged to have him deported.

旁白:纳什在欧洲流浪了九个月,然后大使馆官员安排将他驱逐出境。

French police seized him and took him to the airport.

法国警方抓住了他并将他带到机场。

Nash later claimed that he was sent back on a ship, "in chains, like a slave."

纳什后来声称,他被送回一艘船上,“戴着锁链,就像奴隶一样”。

Narrator: The Nashes moved to Princeton.

旁白:纳什一家搬到了普林斯顿。

To support her family, Alicia took a job with a research division of RCA.

为了养家糊口,艾丽西亚在 RCA 的一个研究部门找到了一份工作。

She hoped that with the help of the math community, they could start over again.

她希望在数学界的帮助下,他们可以重新开始。

Harold Kuhn: When John moved back to Princeton, we offered him work with no real heavy responsibilities, just to get him back into the society.

哈罗德·库恩:当约翰搬回普林斯顿时,我们为他提供了没有真正重任的工作,只是为了让他重返社会。

Those efforts foundered when he refused to sign W-4 forms.

当他拒绝签署 W-4 表格时,这些努力失败了。

He was paranoid schizophrenic.

他患有偏执型精神分裂症。

He wouldn't sign a document for the government because he still thought there was a conspiracy out there against him.

他不会签署政府文件,因为他仍然认为存在针对他的阴谋。

Narrator: Nash was still in the grips of his illness.

旁白:纳什仍处于病痛之中。

He became obsessed with unrest in the Middle East, and made countless phone calls to friends and family using fictitious names.

他开始关注中东的动乱,并用化名给朋友和家人打了无数个电话。

Martha Nash Legg: He would call me would you accept a collect call from some strange name?

玛莎·纳什·莱格:他会给我打电话,你愿意接受某个陌生名字的对方付费电话吗?

And I didn't because I didn't want to validate that he was this other person.

我没有这样做,因为我不想证实他就是另一个人。

Narrator: One day, he showed up on campus covered with scratches and visibly terrified.

旁白:有一天,他出现在校园里,浑身是伤痕,看上去很害怕。

"Johann von Nassau has been a bad boy," he said.

“约翰·冯·拿骚是个坏孩子,”他说。

"They're going to come and get me now."

“他们现在就要来抓我了。”

Less than two years after his release from McLean, Nash was hospitalized again.

从麦克莱恩出院不到两年,纳什再次住院。

Alicia, Virginia, and his sister Martha committed him to Trenton State Hospital, the former New Jersey Lunatic Asylum.

弗吉尼亚州的艾丽西亚和他的妹妹玛莎将他送往特伦顿州立医院,即前新泽西州疯人院。

Martha Nash Legg: At this point, we didn't know whether this was going to be a very long, very expensive process.

Martha Nash Legg:此时,我们不知道这是否会是一个非常漫长、非常昂贵的过程。

And we had been advised that Trenton was a good hospital.

我们被告知特伦顿是一家很好的医院。

Sylvia Nasar: McLean Hospital had been kind of a country club.

西尔维娅·纳萨尔:麦克莱恩医院有点像乡村俱乐部。

Trenton was a crowded, open ward.

特伦顿是一个拥挤、开放的病房。

When he arrived at Trenton State Nash was assigned a number and was mocked and told to sweep up and it was a terrible thing.

当他到达特伦顿州立大学时,纳什被分配了一个号码,并被嘲笑并被告知要扫地,这是一件可怕的事情。

Narrator: When his colleagues heard where Nash was, many were outraged.

旁白:当他的同事们听说纳什在哪里时,很多人都感到愤怒。

"Who's going to figure out what is wrong with a genius there?" asked one.

“谁能弄清楚那里的天才出了什么问题?”一位问道。

"It is in the national interest," warned another, "that everything possible be done to protect Nash's exceptional mind."

另一位警告说:“为了国家利益,应尽一切可能保护纳什的非凡思想。”

Narrator: Trenton State was known for its aggressive treatments, including insulin coma therapy, which by 1961 had been phased out in all but a few hospitals.

旁白:特伦顿州立大学以其积极的治疗方法而闻名,其中包括胰岛素昏迷疗法,到 1961 年,该疗法已在除少数几家医院外的所有医院中逐步淘汰。

Peter Weiden: Insulin coma was developed under the mistaken notion that schizophrenia was caused by a metabolic problem, by the way the body regulates glucose.

Peter Weiden:胰岛素昏迷是在一种错误的观念下产生的,即精神分裂症是由身体调节葡萄糖的代谢问题引起的。

Insulin coma was one of the more popular and unfortunately one of the more notorious treatments in its day.

胰岛素昏迷是当时更流行的治疗方法之一,不幸的是,它也是当时最臭名昭著的治疗方法之一。

John Nash: I don't remember all the details.

约翰·纳什:我不记得所有细节了。

It's the sort of thing like if you go under anesthesia you remember only the process up to the anesthesia.

这就像如果你接受麻醉,你只记得麻醉之前的过程。

Narrator: A nurse would wake patients early in the morning and give them an injection of insulin.

旁白:护士一大早就叫醒病人,给他们注射胰岛素。

Their blood sugar would drop and soon they would be comatose.

他们的血糖会下降,很快就会陷入昏迷。

Some patients would suffer spontaneous seizures.

有些患者会出现自发性癫痫发作。

Peter Weiden: Insulin coma deliberately puts the body into total shock.

Peter Weiden:胰岛素昏迷故意使身体处于完全休克状态。

This was done under supervised circumstances because if you do that too aggressively you can die.

这是在有人监督的情况下完成的,因为如果你做得太过分,你可能会死。

John Nash: I remember some of the surrounding events.

约翰·纳什:我记得一些周围发生的事情。

There would be a group of people that would be getting it and then afterwards, they would go out on the grounds and pass the time and drink sugar water.

会有一群人得到它,然后,他们会出去喝糖水打发时间。

I got to thinking of the cruelty to animals.

我开始思考虐待动物的问题。

I became a vegetarian at the time that I was in the Trenton Hospital.

当我在特伦顿医院时,我成为了一名素食主义者。

I sort of thought that one could protest against this sort of treatment.

我觉得人们可以抗议这种待遇。

Narrator: Nash endured insulin treatments five days a week for six weeks.

旁白:纳什每周接受五天胰岛素治疗,持续六周。

His symptoms diminished and after six months of confinement, he was finally discharged.

他的症状减轻了,经过六个月的隔离后,他终于出院了。

No one knew what the long-term effects of his treatment might be.

没有人知道他的治疗的长期影响可能是什么。

Herta Newman: He came to visit us, and it was after this awful treatment.

赫塔·纽曼:他来拜访我们,是在经历了可怕的待遇之后。

And he looked like he had been battered and through some devastating something, and spoke of it a little bit himself.

他看起来像是遭受了重创,经历了一些毁灭性的事情,他自己也谈到了一些事情。

And it was, you know, it was kind of heartbreaking.

你知道,这有点令人心碎。

Don Reynolds: He said these treatments that he had gone through had wiped out his early memory.

唐·雷诺兹:他说他所经历的这些治疗消除了他早期的记忆。

So I think what he was doing, he was visiting me and different people to see if he could get his memory back.

所以我认为他在做什么,他正在拜访我和不同的人,看看他是否能恢复记忆。

Narrator: In 1961, Nash was 33 and unemployed.

旁白:1961年,纳什33岁,失业了。

Former Princeton colleagues secured him a research position and he managed to publish a paper on fluid dynamics, his first piece of work in four years.

普林斯顿大学的前同事为他提供了一个研究职位,他成功发表了一篇关于流体动力学的论文,这是他四年来的第一篇作品。

He seemed to be better, but inside Nash felt a sense of loss.

他看上去好多了,但纳什内心却有一种失落感。

"Rational thought," he wrote, "imposes a limit on a person's relation to the cosmos." He later called his remission periods "interludes of enforced rationality."

“理性思维,”他写道,“限制了一个人与宇宙的关系。”后来他称自己的缓解期为“强迫理性的间歇期”。

John Nash: To some extent, sanity is a form of conformity.

约翰·纳什:在某种程度上,理智是一种从众的形式。

People are always selling the idea that people who have mental illness are suffering.

人们总是宣扬患有精神疾病的人正在遭受痛苦的想法。

But it's really not so simple.

但事情确实没那么简单。

I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also.

我认为精神疾病或疯狂也可以是一种逃避。

Narrator: The following summer, he left for Europe alone, once again obsessed with asylum.

旁白:第二年夏天,他只身前往欧洲,再次沉迷于避难。

Before long, friends and family began receiving letters and postcards.

不久之后,朋友和家人开始收到信件和明信片。

John Stier: It wasn't the type of letter you would expect to receive from a father, how you doing or what have you been up to.

约翰·斯蒂尔:这不是你期望从父亲那里收到的信,你的表现如何或你在做什么。

It was unbelievable how these things were supposed to mean something.

令人难以置信的是,这些东西竟然意味着什么。

Herta Newman: They were frightening, in a way, the letters.

赫塔·纽曼:从某种程度上来说,这些信件令人恐惧。

And they made use of all the things that had been in his life.

他们利用了他生命中的所有东西。

Mathematics was a kind of numerology and politics mixed with paranoia.

数学是一种命理学和政治,夹杂着偏执。

Narrator: Distraught after three years of turmoil, Alicia filed for divorce in December 1962.

旁白:经过三年的动荡,艾丽西亚心烦意乱,于 1962 年 12 月提出离婚。

Her complaint charged that Nash resented her for committing him and had deserted her without support.

她的投诉指控纳什怨恨她对他的承诺,并在没有支持的情况下抛弃了她。

Narrator: Mathematicians from MIT and Princeton found Nash an academic position in Boston.

旁白:麻省理工学院和普林斯顿大学的数学家在波士顿为纳什找到了一个学术职位。

They got him an apartment, and arranged for him to meet weekly with a psychiatrist, who prescribed anti-psychotic medication.

他们给他安排了一套公寓,并安排他每周与精神科医生会面,精神科医生开了抗精神病药物。

Gradually, he seemed to improve.

渐渐地,他似乎有所进步。

"He was pretty sane," recalled a colleague.

“他很清醒,”一位同事回忆道。

"He was a much nicer person.

“他是一个好得多的人。

The old ego stuff was gone."

旧的自我意识消失了。”

He began seeing Eleanor and their son John again.

他开始再次见到埃莉诺和他们的儿子约翰。

John Stier: We had gotten into a pattern of going out every Saturday.

约翰·斯蒂尔:我们已经养成了每周六出去的习惯。

I started to grow more fond of him as he was around more.

随着他在身边的时间越来越多,我开始越来越喜欢他。

And then he went as quickly as he came.

然后他来得快,去得也快。

Narrator: Less than a year after moving to Boston, Nash stopped taking his medication and his symptoms resurfaced.

旁白:搬到波士顿不到一年,纳什停止服药,他的症状又出现了。

Peter Weiden: These medicines interfere with vitality, with drive, with thinking, so the price that many patients had to pay for being on these medicines was that they felt lifeless.

彼得·韦登:这些药物会干扰活力、动力和思维,因此许多患者服用这些药物所付出的代价是他们感到毫无生气。

Like it takes away their soul.

就像它带走了他们的灵魂。

Martha Nash Legg: He was afraid of anything that would alter the quality of his mind.

玛莎·纳什·莱格:他害怕任何会改变他思想品质的事情。

And as anyone doesn't want to be forced to do something they don't want to do, that they don't choose to do.

正如任何人都不想被迫做他们不想做的事情,他们不选择做的事情。

And John had always been very independent about what he chose to do.

约翰对于自己选择做什么一直非常独立。

Narrator: His delusions were now joined by a chorus of voices in his head.

旁白:他的妄想现在与他脑海中的合唱声交织在一起。

Louis Sass: The kinds of hallucinations that are most common in schizophrenia are auditory hallucinations.

路易斯·萨斯:精神分裂症中最常见的幻觉是幻听。

Of voices of a certain kind.

某种声音。

One kind would be two or more voices which are talking about the ongoing behavior of the patient.

一种是两个或多个声音正在谈论患者正在进行的行为。

So if I were schizophrenic, I might hear John and Mary saying, "Okay, so why is Louis doing that now?" and them Mary would say to John, "Oh, he's just a jerk, he always does that kind of thing." They go back and forth, but sort of a commentary, often critical, on my ongoing behavior.

因此,如果我患有精神分裂症,我可能会听到约翰和玛丽说:“好吧,那么路易斯为什么现在要这么做呢?”玛丽会对约翰说:“哦,他只是个混蛋,他总是做那种事。”他们来来回回,但有点像对我正在进行的行为的评论,通常是批评。

John Nash: You're really talking to yourself is what the voices are.

约翰·纳什:声音就是你在自言自语。

Herta Newman: He said he understood that there was something that went on between people that was alien to him.

赫塔·纽曼:他说他明白人与人之间发生的事情对他来说是陌生的。

That he was sort of enclosed in a bubble.

他有点被封闭在一个泡沫里。

That he felt lonely.

说明他感到孤独。

Narrator: In 1970, Alicia Nash had a change of heart.

旁白:1970 年,艾丽西亚·纳什 (Alicia Nash) 改变了主意。

She felt John¹s repeated hospitalizations had been a mistake.

她认为约翰多次住院是一个错误。

Alicia decided to let him move back in with her and promised never to commit him again.

艾丽西亚决定让他搬回去和她一起住,并保证不再和他在一起。

Alicia Nash: I didn¹t think he should just be hospitalized in an institution and left there.

艾丽西亚·纳什(Alicia Nash):我认为他不应该只是住院并留在那里。

And I just felt it was best for him to be on the outside.

我只是觉得他最好留在外面。

Zipporah Levinson: She took him back not as her husband but as somebody who needed help and nobody else would have him.

Zipporah Levinson:她把他带回来,不是把他当作她的丈夫,而是把他当作一个需要帮助而没有其他人愿意接受他的人。

Giving him shelter and meals and protection made a tremendous difference in his well-being.

为他提供住所、食物和保护对他的福祉产生了巨大的影响。

Sylvia Nasar: If she hadn't taken him in, he would have wound up on the streets.

西尔维娅·纳萨尔:如果她没有收留他,他就会流落街头。

I think that Alicia saved his life.

我认为艾丽西亚救了他的命。

Narrator: Princeton students began noticing a strange sight on campus: entire blackboards filled with minutely written formulas and secret codes.

旁白:普林斯顿大学的学生开始注意到校园里的奇怪景象:整块黑板上写满了精心书写的公式和密码。

Rumors spread it was the work of a mysterious figure who wore red sneakers and kept to himself.

有传言说这是一个穿着红色运动鞋、不与人交往的神秘人物的杰作。

They called him the Phantom.

他们称他为“幻影”。

Sylvia Nasar: There were all kinds of myths about him.

西尔维娅·纳萨尔:关于他有各种各样的神话。

The students would tell each other that he had gone mad because of a too-difficult problem he tried to crack, or after a rival beat him to the punch.

学生们会互相告诉对方,他之所以发疯,是因为他试图解决一个太难的问题,或者是在一个对手抢先一步之后。

And students were aware that the powers that be were protecting him.

学生们意识到,当权者正在保护他。

Erhan Cinlar: From time to time, you would see in your office under the door sort of a huge number of sheets that¹s been worked out the night before, computing the probabilities of certain coincidences.

Erhan Cinlar:有时,你会在办公室的门下看到大量前一天晚上计算出来的表格,计算某些巧合的概率。

Very detailed computations.

非常详细的计算。

He was into proving the existence of God.

他致力于证明上帝的存在。

John Nash: I felt that I might get a divine revelation by seeing a certain number.

约翰·纳什:我觉得看到某个数字可能会得到神圣的启示。

A great coincidence could be interpreted as something, a message from heaven.

一个伟大的巧合可以被解释为某种东西,来自天堂的信息。

Felix Browder: I did see him several times.

菲利克斯·布劳德:我确实见过他几次。

He didn't recognize me.

他没有认出我。

I didn't press the matter.

我没有追问这件事。

I didn't have the sense I could have any contact with him, so I didn't try.

我感觉自己无法与他有任何联系,所以我没有尝试。

Narrator: Year after year, for more than a decade, the Phantom roamed the Princeton campus -- unaware that the work he had done as a student had finally sparked a revolution.

旁白:年复一年,十多年来,幽灵在普林斯顿校园里徘徊——没有意识到他作为学生所做的工作最终引发了一场革命。

Beginning in the 1960s, economists began to successfully apply game theory to real-life situations.

从 20 世纪 60 年代开始,经济学家开始成功地将博弈论应用于现实生活中。

Paul Samuelson: Mergers, strikes, collective bargaining, these situations of conflict and cooperation are part of the backbone of practical economics.

保罗·萨缪尔森:合并、罢工、集体谈判、这些冲突与合作的情况是实用经济学支柱的一部分。

Narrator: Auctions, farm subsidies, monetary policy, international trade -- all were now seen as strategic games.

旁白:拍卖、农业补贴、货币政策、国际贸易——现在都被视为战略游戏。

By the late 1970s, game theory had become one of the foundations of modern economics.

到 20 世纪 70 年代末,博弈论已成为现代经济学的基础之一。

And at the center was the Nash equilibrium.

中心是纳什均衡。

Sylvia Nasar: There are not more than 10 ideas, in the post-war period, which you could say are equivalent.

Sylvia Nasar:战后时期,可以说等效的想法不超过 10 个。

It had a huge impact in economics.

它对经济学产生了巨大的影响。

It made economics a much more useful subject.

它使经济学成为一个更有用的学科。

John Nash: I knew it was good work, but you cannot know how much something will be appreciated in the future.

约翰·纳什:我知道这是一份好工作,但你无法知道未来会有多少东西会受到赞赏。

You don't have that crystal ball.

你没有那个水晶球。

Narrator: By the 1980s, economists expected that game theory would be recognized with the Nobel Prize.

旁白:到了20世纪80年代,经济学家们期望博弈论能够获得诺贝尔奖。

Year after year, it didn't happen.

年复一年,这一切都没有发生。

Paul Samuelson: The committee in Stockholm could not conceivably dream of giving a Nobel Prize if they couldn't include John Nash as one of the deserving people.

保罗·萨缪尔森:如果斯德哥尔摩的委员会不能将约翰·纳什列为应得的人之一,那么他们就不可能梦想授予诺贝尔奖。

Members of the Nobel committee worried that Nash was unstable and wouldn't be able to handle the pressures of the ceremony.

诺贝尔委员会成员担心纳什情绪不稳定,无法应对颁奖典礼的压力。

Some even feared he might do something that would embarrass the Academy and tarnish the prize.

有些人甚至担心他可能会做一些让学院难堪并玷污奖项的事情。

Narrator: Beginning sometime in the 1980s, after three decades of struggling with mental illness, John Nash experienced his second transformation.

旁白:从 20 世纪 80 年代开始,在与精神疾病斗争了三十年后,约翰·纳什经历了第二次转变。

John Nash: I don't really remember the chronology very well, exactly when I moved from one type of thinking to another.

约翰·纳什:我不太记得从一种思维转向另一种思维的具体时间顺序。

I began arguing with the concept of the voices.

我开始争论声音的概念。

And ultimately I began rejecting them and deciding not to listen.

最终我开始拒绝他们并决定不听。

Narrator: His descent into madness had been sudden; his reawakening was gradual, almost imperceptible.

旁白:他突然陷入疯狂;他的苏醒是渐进的,几乎是难以察觉的。

Louis Sass: A portion of schizophrenics, after a long period of time, often do seem to get better, and how that occurs remains a mystery.

路易斯·萨斯(Louis Sass):一部分精神分裂症患者在经过很长一段时间后,似乎确实有所好转,但这种情况是如何发生的仍然是个谜。

John Nash: I don't know what leads to what.

约翰·纳什:我不知道什么会导致什么。

I don't want to try to inquire too deeply myself.

我不想自己去探究得太深。

Slowly, he became more engaged and lucid.

慢慢地,他变得更加专注和清醒。

Word of his remarkable recovery spread.

关于他恢复良好的消息传开了。

Those around him assumed new antipsychotic drugs were helping, but Nash had stopped taking medication in 1970.

他周围的人认为新的抗精神病药物有帮助,但纳什在 1970 年就停止服药了。

Harold Kuhn: I said, "John, how in the devil have you recovered?" He said, "I willed it.

哈罗德·库恩:我说,“约翰,你到底恢复得怎么样了?”他说:“我愿意。

I decided I was going to think rationally."

我决定要理性思考。”

Martha Nash Legg: He has said that he more or less put his hallucinations aside, like a conscious decision.

玛莎·纳什·莱格:他说过,他或多或少地把自己的幻觉放在一边,就像一个有意识的决定。

I mentioned that to somebody, and she said, well, why didn't he do it sooner?

我向某人提到过这一点,她说,好吧,他为什么不早点这样做呢?

Sylvia Nasar: The fact that people did not abandon him, that there were people who treated him like a human being, made it possible for him to re-emerge.

西尔维娅·纳萨尔:人们没有抛弃他,有人把他当作人来对待,这一事实使他有可能重新出现。

Herta Newman: This wonderful thing that happened to John could only happen in this little mathematical community that is very, very tolerant of certain aberrations, and also at the same time incredibly admiring of gift or genius.

赫塔·纽曼:发生在约翰身上的这件奇妙的事情只能发生在这个小小的数学社区中,这个社区对某些偏差非常非常宽容,同时又对天赋或天才非常钦佩。

That was what was important about Nash in that world, not that he was ill.

这就是纳什在那个世界上最重要的事情,而不是他生病了。

NPR Radio Announcement: "Two American professors and a German researcher have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics.

NPR电台公告:“两位美国教授和一位德国研究员荣获诺贝尔经济学奖。

The Royal Swedish Academy cited" (audio dissolve to) "The three winners of today's Nobel Prize played major roles in bringing the principles of game theory to economics.

瑞典皇家学院引用“(音频溶解)”今天的诺贝尔奖三位获得者在将博弈论原理引入经济学方面发挥了重要作用。

Princeton's John Nash was cited for developing what has become known as the Nash equilibrium, a pioneering theory"

普林斯顿大学的约翰·纳什因发展了后来被称为纳什均衡的开创性理论而受到赞誉。”

Don Reynolds: My wife said, "John Nash!

唐·雷诺兹:我妻子说:“约翰·纳什!

You don't think that's the John Nash that we know?" I didn't know John was still alive.

你不认为那是我们认识的约翰·纳什吗?”我不知道约翰还活着。

Martha Nash Legg: I remember clearly, I heard it on the radio, and I said, "That's John!" And I cried.

玛莎·纳什·莱格:我记得很清楚,我在收音机里听到了,我说,“那是约翰!”我哭了。

All I could thinks was, "I wish my parents could know this."

我所能想到的就是:“我希望我的父母能够知道这一点。”

Narrator: On December 10, 1994, at the age of 66, John Nash received the Nobel Prize in Stockholm.

旁白:1994年12月10日,66岁的约翰·纳什在斯德哥尔摩获得诺贝尔奖。

King Of Sweden: "Dr. John Nash, your analysis of equilibrium non-cooperative games and all your other contributions to game theory have had a profound effect on the way economic theory has developed in the last two decades."

瑞典国王:“约翰·纳什博士,您对均衡非合作博弈的分析以及您对博弈论的所有其他贡献对经济理论在过去二十年的发展方式产生了深远的影响。”

Donald Newman: I was delighted.

唐纳德·纽曼:我很高兴。

I was absolutely ecstatic and so was my wife.

我非常欣喜若狂,我的妻子也是如此。

It was so wonderful.

真是太棒了。

Herta Newman: Jubilant.

赫塔·纽曼:兴高采烈。

We danced around our kitchen.

我们围着厨房跳舞。

I mean, it was such a marvelous vindication.

我的意思是,这是一次了不起的辩护。

That after all this time, this incredible acknowledgement, it's great.

经过这么长时间,这种令人难以置信的承认,真是太棒了。

Erhan Cinlar: He shined very brightly as a young man.

Erhan Cinlar:年轻时他光芒四射。

Then he had his illness.

然后他就得了病。

And he's now a very pleasant, accomplished gentleman.

现在他是一位非常令人愉快、多才多艺的绅士。

It feels right somehow.

不知何故感觉是对的。

Narrator: John Nash lives in Princeton with Alicia and their son Johnny, who is also a mathematician and suffers from schizophrenia.

旁白:约翰·纳什与艾丽西亚和他们的儿子约翰尼住在普林斯顿,约翰尼也是一名数学家,患有精神分裂症。

After a long estrangement, Nash has reconnected with his eldest son, John Stier.

经过长期的疏远,纳什与他的长子约翰·斯蒂尔重新建立了联系。

In the spring of 2001, 38 years after their divorce, John and Alicia remarried.

2001 年春天,约翰和艾丽西亚离婚 38 年后再婚。

At Princeton, Nash has returned once again to his work in mathematics.

在普林斯顿大学,纳什再次回到了他的数学工作中。

Louis Sass: I think it teaches us that we have to appreciate the particular talents of people who may be very eccentric, and look at things in very peculiar ways.

路易斯·萨斯:我认为它告诉我们,我们必须欣赏那些可能非常古怪的人的特殊才能,并以非常独特的方式看待事物。

Those are often the people who will really have the most stunning insights.

这些人往往是真正拥有最令人惊叹的见解的人。

Sylvia Nasar: Here was someone who had been lost.

西尔维娅·纳萨尔:这是一个迷路的人。

I think that's the inspiration; that people can triumph over this disease.

我认为这就是灵感;相信人们能够战胜这种疾病。

I think it's incredibly inspiring.

我认为这非常鼓舞人心。

John Nash: I'm not thinking anything crazy but I there are different possibilities.

约翰·纳什:我并没有想什么疯狂的事情,但我有不同的可能性。

I don't know what the future holds exactly, even if it's not such a long future, for me.

我不知道未来到底会怎样,即使对我来说不是那么遥远的未来。

Of course, the future in general is presumably long unless things really go bad or unless some miracle happens.

当然,总体来说,未来可能很长,除非事情真的变坏或者除非出现奇迹。

Dr. John Nash's life — his early brilliance, his struggle with mental illness, and his slow, willful recovery — is definitely the stuff of Greek tragedy.

约翰·纳什博士的一生——他早年的才华、他与精神疾病的斗争,以及他缓慢而任性的康复——绝对是希腊悲剧的主角。

Learn about how mental illness has been understood and treated over time.

了解随着时间的推移,人们如何理解和治疗精神疾病。

Prof. Avinash Dixit, John Nash's colleague and friend explains game theory and its impact on situations we encounter every day.

约翰·纳什的同事兼朋友阿维纳什·迪克西特教授解释了博弈论及其对我们每天遇到的情况的影响。

A panel of experts answered your questions on John Nash's extraordinary story, on mental illness, treatment, and recovery, in this online forum.

在这个在线论坛上,专家小组回答了您关于约翰·纳什关于精神疾病、治疗和康复的非凡故事的问题。

Browse this photo gallery of American winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics.

浏览诺贝尔经济学奖美国获得者的照片库。

Alicia entered Nash's life as a young M.I.T. student dazzled by a star professor.

艾丽西亚作为一名年轻的麻省理工学院学生进入了纳什的生活。学生被明星教授迷住了。

The first hint of John Nash's math talent came in fourth grade, when a teacher told his mother that the boy couldn't do the math.

约翰·纳什的数学天赋第一次显现出来是在四年级的时候,当时一位老师告诉他的母亲,这个男孩不会做数学。

When the economics committee asked a young researcher, Ariel Rubinstein, to report on the most promising Nobel candidates in game theory, Nash's name topped the list.

当经济委员会要求年轻研究员阿里尔·鲁宾斯坦(Ariel Rubinstein)报告博弈论领域最有希望的诺贝尔奖候选人时,纳什的名字名列榜首。

The possibilities of recovery and the search for treatments are the subjects of an enormous amount of research, and a wide range of opinion.

康复的可能性和寻找治疗方法是大量研究和广泛意见的主题。

It should surprise no one that the myth-making industry gets mental illness, especially schizophrenia, wrong more often than right.

神话制造行业患精神疾病,尤其是精神分裂症,错误多于正确,这一点应该不会令任何人感到惊讶。

In 1953, while Nash was at M.I.T., FBI agents went after three members of the university's math department who previously had been members of the Communist Party.

1953 年,当纳什在麻省理工学院时,联邦调查局特工追捕了该大学数学系的三名成员,他们此前都是共产党员。

Abraham Flexner, an expert in medical education, convinced the Bamberger family to establish Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

医学教育专家亚伯拉罕·弗莱克斯纳说服班伯格家族在新泽西州普林斯顿建立高等研究院。

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