Classes Will Dull Your Mind, Destroy The

Nowadays We Can Do Computer Experiments Using Mathematica, And Even Solve A System Of 42 Equations. This Offers Another Route To Knowledge, Rather Than Mere Ideas.

Though I Had Success In My Research Both When I Was Mad And When I Was Not, Eventually I Felt That My Work Would Be Better Respected If I Thought And Acted Like A 'normal' Person.

I Had Been Offered Fellowships To Enter As A Graduate Student At Either Harvard Or Princeton. But The Princeton Fellowship Was Somewhat More Generous, Since I Had Not Actually Won The Putnam Competition... Thus Princeton Became The Choice For My Graduate Study Location.

I Would Not Dare To Say That There Is A Direct Relation Between Mathematics And Madness, But There Is No Doubt That Great Mathematicians Suffer From Maniacal Characteristics, Delirium And Symptoms Of Schizophrenia.

I Later Spent... Five To Eight Months In Hospitals In New Jersey, Always On An Involuntary Basis, And Always Attempting A Legal Argument For Release.