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John Charles Martin Nash
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John Charles Martin Nash (born 20 May 1959 in Boston, Massachusetts), known as Johnny Nash, is an American mathematician, the only child of mathematician John Forbes Nash and the former Alicia Lopez-Harrison de Larde. (John Forbes Nash had another son with Eleanor Stier; he is on contact with that child also. ) He remained nameless for a year after his birth as his motehr waited for his father to be released from the mental hospital to which he had been committed. , The middle name Martin is in honor of his father's mother, the former Margaret Virginia Martin. John Charles Martin also grew up to be a mathematician, despite graduating neither high school nor college. He earned his Ph.D at Rutgers University in 1985 with a dissertation entitled Results on Bases in Additive Number Theory under Melvyn Bernard Nathanson. He has an Erdos number of 2 through his advisor. He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in the mid-1970s, just as his father was experiencing a period of remission. He is a successful chess player, ranking in the Top 200 in New Jersey. , He is also an artist. He lives with, and is cared for by, his parents. 
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