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John Forbes Nash Jr. had a beautiful mind. Ron Howard said so.

Howard directed “A Beautiful Mind,” the 2001 film about the prize-winning mathematician. The movie was artful. (Much of the story line was “cinematized,” Howard explained, because “Nash is not particularly communicative about that sort of thing [his life].” But what Nash can do with numbers is fine art indeed. The letter of recommendation a professor wrote to get Nash into graduate school was one sentence long — “This man is a genius.”