QIs it possible to read Nash's dissertation online?
AYes. Princeton University has made a copy of Nash's original dissertation, Non-cooperative Games (1950), available here.
QWas the real relationship between John Nash and his wife Alicia truly as beautiful as in the movie?
ANo. In reality, Nash was involved with another woman and had fathered a son out of wedlock with her prior to meeting Alicia. They did marry and have a son together, but his illness drove them apart. Unlike in the movie, Nash deeply resented Alicia for having him involuntarily committed. Upon his release, Nash withdrew from her emotionally and sexually. After three years of enduring his mania, Alicia divorced Nash in 1962 and began a new relationship with another man. She continued to help and support Nash as a friend rather than as a wife. She even let him stay in her home to keep Nash from becoming homeless but thought of him as a boarder. They lived separate lives under the same roof. Their romantic relationship was only restarted after Nash won the Nobel Prize. She remarried him in 2001, well after his mental illness had already subsided.
QA Note Regarding Spoilers
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