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In 1958, Fortune singled him out for his achievements in game theory, algebraic geometry and non linear theory, calling him the most brilliant of the younger generation of new mathematicians who worked in pure as well as in applied mathematics.
His first sign of mental illness appeared in late 1950’s. He would walk into the common room of MIT carrying the New York Times and would claim that it contains encrypted messages from inhabitants of another galaxy that only he could decipher. In 1959, shortly after being granted tenure in the mathematics department at the MIT, he was involuntarily admitted to McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., with a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. He left MIT, driven by voices and visions and for the next 30 years languished in obscurity.
In and out of mental hospitals, his name began to surface as an adjective for concepts universally accepted: ‘Nash equilibrium,’ ‘Nash bargaining solution,’ ‘Nash Programme,’ ‘De Giorgi-Nash result,’ Nash embedding,’ ‘Nash-Moser theorem,’ Nash blowing-up’ The New Pelgrave, the encyclopaedia of economics noted that the game theory that had swept through economics, ‘was effected with apparently no new fundamental mathematical theorem beyond those of Von Newman and Nash’   However some  persons doubt game theory’s practical utility in Economics as it may apply where there are a small number of players  playing against one another.
It was in late 1980’s that his reawakening from his mental illness started; his recovery followed in the early 1990’s.  He shared the Noble Prize for Economics in 1994 with Harsanyi and Selten for the game theory. 
The book ‘A Beautiful Mind’ is a story about the mystery of human mind in its three dimensions – genius, madness, and reawakening. I wouldn’t know if the movie is as good as the book. The film fraternity has found it so but will the mathematical fraternity agree with it or not is another question.