Part 1. 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, 1950-51) -- 15. A beautiful theorem (Princeton, 1950-51) -- 16. MIT -- 17. Bad boys -- 18. Experiments (RAND, Summer 1952) -- 19. Reds (Spring 1953) -- 20. Geometry -- Part 2. 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 3. 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 4. 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 5. The most worthy -- 47. Remission -- 48. The prize -- 49. The greatest auction ever (Washington, D.C., December 1994) -- 50. Reawakening (Princeton, 1995-97) -- Epilogue.
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