“A Beautiful Mind” makes it the Top 10 list of many. The movie is indeed great. Director Ron Howard did a marvellous job and then the stellar acting by Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly based on the life on the noted mathematician John Nash, Jr. who received his PhD from Princeton University in 1950. When speaking about his research, the impact of his 27 page dissertation on the fields of mathematics and economics was tremendous. In 1951 he joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. His battle with schizophrenia began around 1958, and the struggle with this illness would continue for much of his life. Nash eventually returned to the community of Princeton. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994. The 2001 film A Beautiful Mind, staring Russell Crowe, was loosely based on the life of Nash.
在許多“十大”榜單上，《美麗心靈》必定位列其中。這部影片確實很精彩。導演朗·霍華德執(zhí)導十分出色。該片是基于著名數(shù)學家約翰·納什的真實故事改編，其于1950年獲普林斯頓大學博士學位，由著名演員羅素·克勞和詹妮弗·康納利出演。提到納什的研究，他那27頁關于數(shù)學與經(jīng)濟學領域的博士論文的影響可謂十分深遠。1951年，納什入職麻省理工學院（劍橋）。1958年納什開始出現(xiàn)精神分裂癥，此后他的大半生都在與精神分裂作斗爭。隨后納什回到了普林斯頓大學任教。1994年，納什榮獲諾貝爾經(jīng)濟學獎。2001年由羅素·克勞主演的《美麗心靈》就是基于納什的故事改編的。

Here are 5 questions and answers that you need to know about the real John Nash vs the one portrayed on the film.
以下是關于真實的約翰·納什與影片所塑造的人物之間你需要知道的5個問題與回答。

1. In the movie A Beautiful Mind there is a scene in which faculty members present their pens to Nash. What is the origin of the pen ceremony? When did it start?
電影《美麗心靈》中有一幕，即普林斯頓大學的師生紛紛給納什呈遞自己的鋼筆。這個遞筆儀式有何來源？什么時候開始的？

The scene in the movie A Beautiful Mind in which mathematics professors ritualistically present pens to Nash was completely fabricated in Hollywood. No such custom exists. What it symbolizes is that Nash was accepted and recognized in the mathematics community for his accomplishments. While some movies are based on books, the film A Beautiful Mind states that it was inspired by the life of John Nash. There are many discrepancies between the book and the film.
影片《美麗心靈》中普林斯頓大學數(shù)學系教授紛紛給納什呈遞鋼筆的這一幕完完全全是好萊塢自己編造的。實際上并沒有這一儀式。片中這一儀式象征的是納什在數(shù)學上的成就獲得該領域的認可。有些電影是根據(jù)小說改編的，而《美麗心靈》則是從約翰·納什的故事中獲得靈感。小說和電影還是有很多不同之處的。

2. May I have a copy of Nash’s 1994 Nobel Prize acceptance speech?
我可以拷貝納什1994年諾貝爾獎獲獎發(fā)言嗎？

At the Nobel Prize Award ceremony, His Majesty the King of Sweden hands each Laureate a diploma, a medal, and a document confirming the Prize amount. The Laureates do not give acceptance speeches. The scene in the movie A Beautiful Mind in which Nash thanks his wife Alicia for her continued support during his illness is fictional.
那年的諾貝爾獎頒獎典禮，瑞典國王給每一位獲獎者頒發(fā)了獲獎證書，獎牌，以及相關獎金文件。獲獎者并不發(fā)表獲獎感言?！睹利愋撵`》中納什感謝其妻艾莉西亞在其患病期間的悉心照料和不斷支持這一幕是虛構的。

Laureates are each invited to give an hour-long lecture; however, the Nobel committee did not ask Nash to do so, due to concerns over his mental health. In fact, the only speech he gave was at a party at Princeton. Sylvia Nasar mentions:
獲獎者獲邀發(fā)表時長1小時的演說。然而諾貝爾委員會考慮到納什的精神狀況，并沒有要求他這樣做。事實上，納什唯一的發(fā)言是在普林斯頓大學的一個聚會上。西爾維婭·納薩爾提到：

“He was not inclined to give speeches, he said, but he had three things to say. First, he hoped that getting the Nobel would improve his credit rating because he really wanted a credit card. Second, he said that one is supposed to say that one is glad he is sharing the prize, but he wished he had won the whole thing because he really needed the money badly. Third, Nash said that he had won for game theory and that he felt that game theory was like string theory, a subject of great intrinsic intellectual interest that the world wishes to imagine can be of some utility. He said it with enough scepticism in his voice to make it funny”.
“納什說他其實并不想發(fā)言，但是他有三件事要說。第一，他希望獲獎以后能夠提高自己的信用評級，因為他很想辦張信用卡。第二，他說，本來他應該說他很高興與別人分享獎項，但是他希望獲獎的只是自己，因為他真的很缺錢。第三，納什說，自己因為博弈理論獲獎，而他覺得博弈理論就像內(nèi)涵豐富知識的弦理論，世界希望其能發(fā)揮作用。納什說這些話的時候十足的懷疑論調，十分幽默?！?/div>

3. What other things I need to know about John Nash’s life?
關于約翰·納什的人生我還該知道些什么？

–John Nash fathered an out-of-wedlock son with a Boston nurse.
約翰·納什與波士頓的一名護士有一個私生子。

–He shared the Nobel Prize with Reinhard Selten and János Harsányi.
納什與萊因哈德·澤爾騰和約翰·C·海薩尼共同獲得了諾貝爾經(jīng)濟學獎。

–Nash blamed Alicia for twice committing him to a mental institution and the couple had divorced in 1962.
納什曾責怪艾莉西亞兩次送其進精神療養(yǎng)院，兩人于1962年離異。