Who is John Forbes Nash, Jr. from A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994 and what is their importance?

John Forbes was a gifted mathematician. He was born on June 13, 1928 to John and Virginia Nash in Bluefield, West Virginia. As a child, he was introverted and a loner but bright and curious. While in high school, he was enrolled in courses in English, science and math at Bluefield College. After taking courses at Bluefield College, he won a Westinghouse Scholarship to the Carnegie Institute of Technology, which he attended from 1945 - 1948.