John Nash and Our Beloved the late Ko Min Aung

The Mathematician of the Century and icon who opened many doors to both artistic and today's science fields has left the world with his beloved wife. He has been named "genius" by many of his colleagues but lived simple. Although his down-spiraled mental illness led him to quieter times, his equation of equilibrium invented became a platform of our lives today.
Our beloved friend, Ko Min Aung, who left us decades ago shared the similar spotlight during 70's and 80's in Burma. He matriculated with the unparalleled highest score among nationwide high school exit examination in 1975 in Burma. He is probably a 'genius' according to a political science teacher of Rangoon Institute of Medicine. He was able to narrate every word of the text of the "Correlation of the Man and His Environment", the bible of socialist era, in very few days. Being an only son of army officers parents, he was raised by his aunt. His mother was one of earliest top 5 army officers who received training from the West Point. Known well to very handful of friends, he astounded us of his quick learning talent and ability to analyze the entire subject. He struggled with schizophrenia in his late life and died quietly before he earned his merit.

 
John F. Nash Jr., a mathematician who shared a Nobel Prize in 1994 for work that greatly extended the reach and power of modern economic theory and whose decadeslong descent into severe mental illness and eventual recovery were the subject of a book and a 2001 film, both titled “A Beautiful Mind,” was killed, along with his wife, in a car crash Saturday in New Jersey. He was 86.