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In the early 1970s and Nash began to gradually to return to his work in mathematics. However, Nash himself associated his madness with his living on an "ultralogical" plane, "breathing air too rare" for most mortals, and if being "cured" meant he could no longer do any original work at that level, then, Nash argued, a remission might not be worthwhile in the end.  As John Dryden once put it:

Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

(John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, 1681)

Nash shared the Nobel prize in 1994 with John C. Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten - for what he claims was his "most trivial work"!

Major Works of John F. Nash

• "Equilibrium points in N-Person Games", 1950, Proceedings of NAS.
• "The Bargaining Problem", 1950, Econometrica.
• "A Simple Three-Person Poker Game", with L.S. Shapley, 1950, Annals of Mathematical Statistics.
• "Non-Cooperative Games", 1951, Annals of Mathematics.
• "Two-Person Cooperative Games", 1953, Econometrica.

Resources on John Nash

• Autobiography of Nash.
• Press release of Nobel award (1994).
• Nash Page at MacTutor
• New York Times article on Nash.
• Citation on induction into NAS.
• "The Lost Years of a Nobel Laureaute" by Sylvia Nasar, New York Times, 1994
• National Public Radio's review of Sylvia Nasar's "A Beautiful Mind" (Real Audio file)
• John Milnor's "John Nash and a Beautiful Mind", from American Mathematical Society (PDF file)
• Citation from 1978 John von Neumann Theory Prize from INFORMS
• "Review of Beautiful Mind" by Joan Didion, 1998, NY Review of Books