Contents

Prologue

Part One: A Beautiful Mind

1 Bluefield (1928-45) 2 Carnegie Institute of Technology (June 1945-June 1948) 3 The Center of the Universe (Princeton, Fall 1948) 4 School of Genius (Princeton, Fall 1948) 5 Genius (Princeton, 1948-49) 6 Games (Princeton, Spring 1949.) 7 John von Neumann (Princeton, 1948-49) 8 The Theory of Games 9 The Bargaining Problem (Princeton, Spring 1949) 10 Nash's Rival Idea (Princeton, 1949-50) 11 Lloyd (Princeton, 1950) 12 The War of Wits (RAND, Summer 1950) 13 Game Theory at RAND 14 The Draft (Princeton, 195O-51) 15 A Beautiful Theorem (Princeton, 1950-51) 16 MIT 17 Bad Boys 18 Experiments (RAND, Summer 1952) 19 Reds (Spring 1953) 20 Geometry

Part Two: Separate Lives

21 Singularity 22 A Special Friendship (Santa Monica, Summer 1952) 23 Eleanor 24 Jack 25 The Arrest (RAND, Summer 1954) 26 Alicia 27 The Courtship 28 Seattle (Summer 1956) 29 Death and Marriage (1956-57)

Part Three: A Slow Fire Burning

30 Olden Lane and Washington Square (1956-57) 31 The Bomb Factory 32 Secrets (Summer 1958) 33 Schemes (Fall 1958) 34 The Emperor of Antarctica 35 In the Eye of the Storm (Spring 1959) 36 Day-Breaks in Bowditch Hall (McLean Hospital, April-May, 1959) 37 Mad Hatter's Tea (May-June 1959)

Part Four: The Lost Years

38 Citoyen du Monde (Paris and Geneva, 1959-60) 39 Absolute Zero (Princeton, 1960) 40 Tower of Silence (Trenton State Hospital, 1961) 41 An Interlude of Enforced Rationality (July 1961-April 1963) 42 The "Blowing Up" Problem (Princeton and Carrier Clinic, 1963-65) 43 Solitude (Boston, 1965-67) 44 A Man All Alone in a Strange World (Roanoke, 1967-70) 45 Phantom of Fine Hall (Princeton, 1970s) 46 A Quiet Life (Princeton, 1970-90)

Part Five: The Most Worthy

47 Remission 48 The Prize 49 The Greatest Auction Ever (Washington, D.C., December 1994) 50 Reawakening (Princeton, 1995-97) Notes

Select Bibliography Acknowledgments Index