Hello everyone! KK Blog Flash celebrates its 45th issue! Haha =) Yupz today shall talk about napfa 2.4 km run but the focus is on the Beautiful Mind of John Nash, 1994 Nobel Prize Laureate for Economics for his breakthrough that flawed the Game Theory or something like that.
Well the poor off-form me couldnt run very fast so received a no. 43 placing... which will translate into a borderline fail or borderline pass in HC standards... Haiz anyway will have to retake anyway because of pullups and broadjump...
OK time for the more interesting part! Today for maths lecture, we watched A Beautiful Mind! Ditto for those who went for Maths Trail, because this film really plays on your perspective of whats there may not be there! I even went for part 2 after school with Sam and Serena just to complete the story of this remarkable man John Nash. Basically, it was the true life story of John Nash, who suffered from Schizophrenia, a mental illness that causes you to hear things that nobody else hears, see things that nobody else sees and whatever mind tricks you can think of. After doing some research just now, I realised that this disease appears in men as young as the teens and in women as early as the 20s. So well the movie starts when John Nash was trying to enter university or take up a professorship (dunno which one... not very clear in the movie). He manages to get in after trying in vain for so many times of coming up with something creative and original (can you imagine that the movement of birds trying to feed on seed can be governed by mathematical terms like dy/dx and summation? Haha =) Intriguing thought but obviously flawed) It was at that young age that he broke the Game Theory that enabled him to get whatever he wanted.
For part one, he was basically about how he got to meet his wife, how he got himself into a Ministry of Defence top secret code breaking project as well as how he met his roommate as well as his niece. Well the film was obviously carefully planned to trick the audience into believing that what they saw was actually happening. The notion that he was in a defence project and even having a roommate was actually smashed to bits when he was diagnosed with schizophrenia when somebody sent a psychologist to get him when he was at a Maths Conference.
For part two, it was about his long struggle to regain what he had lost as well as overcoming his disease without the use of medication. His wife and him went through much emotional turmoil as he battled to ignore his delusions which also resulted in catastrophe when his baby son almost drowned in the bathtub. He had offered to bathe his baby son much to the surprise of his wife. But apparently he turned on the tap and allowed his "roommate" to look after him, who obviously wasnt there. Luckily his wife returned in time to save their son. The couple decided to compromise - stop the medication and let him combat the disease himself after his terrifying experience at the mental hospital. He started out by going back to Princeton to try to find work, which he was offered a library position. Apparently the rationale behind this was to give him a familiar ground (he used to study or work there) so that he can be at ease and fight the delusions better. It was hard-going at first but he eventually managed to totally ignore his 3 imaginary friends. Finally during the year of 1994, he received credit for his breaking of the game theory. It particularly struck me when he gave his speech.
Well the poor off-form me couldnt run very fast so received a no. 43 placing... which will translate into a borderline fail or borderline pass in HC standards... Haiz anyway will have to retake anyway because of pullups and broadjump...
OK time for the more interesting part! Today for maths lecture, we watched A Beautiful Mind! Ditto for those who went for Maths Trail, because this film really plays on your perspective of whats there may not be there! I even went for part 2 after school with Sam and Serena just to complete the story of this remarkable man John Nash. Basically, it was the true life story of John Nash, who suffered from Schizophrenia, a mental illness that causes you to hear things that nobody else hears, see things that nobody else sees and whatever mind tricks you can think of. After doing some research just now, I realised that this disease appears in men as young as the teens and in women as early as the 20s. So well the movie starts when John Nash was trying to enter university or take up a professorship (dunno which one... not very clear in the movie). He manages to get in after trying in vain for so many times of coming up with something creative and original (can you imagine that the movement of birds trying to feed on seed can be governed by mathematical terms like dy/dx and summation? Haha =) Intriguing thought but obviously flawed) It was at that young age that he broke the Game Theory that enabled him to get whatever he wanted.
For part one, he was basically about how he got to meet his wife, how he got himself into a Ministry of Defence top secret code breaking project as well as how he met his roommate as well as his niece. Well the film was obviously carefully planned to trick the audience into believing that what they saw was actually happening. The notion that he was in a defence project and even having a roommate was actually smashed to bits when he was diagnosed with schizophrenia when somebody sent a psychologist to get him when he was at a Maths Conference.
For part two, it was about his long struggle to regain what he had lost as well as overcoming his disease without the use of medication. His wife and him went through much emotional turmoil as he battled to ignore his delusions which also resulted in catastrophe when his baby son almost drowned in the bathtub. He had offered to bathe his baby son much to the surprise of his wife. But apparently he turned on the tap and allowed his "roommate" to look after him, who obviously wasnt there. Luckily his wife returned in time to save their son. The couple decided to compromise - stop the medication and let him combat the disease himself after his terrifying experience at the mental hospital. He started out by going back to Princeton to try to find work, which he was offered a library position. Apparently the rationale behind this was to give him a familiar ground (he used to study or work there) so that he can be at ease and fight the delusions better. It was hard-going at first but he eventually managed to totally ignore his 3 imaginary friends. Finally during the year of 1994, he received credit for his breaking of the game theory. It particularly struck me when he gave his speech.
Logic lies not in equations and mathematics, but in the heart.
A worthy statement from a man who has combated a disease with all his heart.
Yupz and with that i end this issue of KK Blog Flash. Hope this movie (or blog flash haha =) ) has been an inspiring one for all. Draw strength from his example and Jiayou for whatever you do!
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