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John Forbes Nash, Jr.

This individual, born June 13, 1928, is a brilliant mathematician whom many consider to be a genius.

Alicia Larde Nash

This individual is from an elite Central American family whose ancestors had been wine growers in Champagne, France and moved to Baton Rouge during the revolution.

Solomon Lefschetz

This is the mathematician who recruited the book's subject for graduate work at Princeton.

Eleanor Stier

This Boston nurse had an affair with the book's subject and bore his son on June 19, 1953.

John David Stier

This individual, born on June 19, 1953, was placed in foster care due to lack of support from his father.

Lloyd Shapley

This son of a famed Harvard astronomer attended college on a Westinghouse Scholarship and did his graduate work in mathematics at Princeton.

John Charles Martin Nash

This individual was born on May 20, 1959, while his father was confined to the McLean Hospital.

Margaret Virginia Martin Nash

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