Absolutely! My favourite bit from "A Beautiful Mind" -- the book -- is still that early chapter describing what an astonishing collection of intelligence Princeton had attracted at that point time (1930s): Einstein, Goedel, von Neumann, Church, Fine,...
The pressure was so intense that the average completion time for a PhD was 2 years! (And when he arrived, Nash himself was apparently just bitter about not being offered a scholarship by Harvard).
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Absolutely! My favourite bit from "A Beautiful Mind" -- the book -- is still that early chapter describing what an astonishing collection of intelligence Princeton had attracted at that point time (1930s): Einstein, Goedel, von Neumann, Church, Fine,...
The pressure was so intense that the average completion time for a PhD was 2 years! (And when he arrived, Nash himself was apparently just bitter about not being offered a scholarship by Harvard).