Ambrose is a colleague of John Nash’s at MIT who strongly disapproves of Nash, believing him to be a “childish bright guy” who foolishly takes on difficult problems. Ambrose is a “moody, intense, somewhat frustrated” mathematician who cultivates a rivalry with Nash, challenging him to solve the notoriously difficult “embedding problem for manifolds”—which Nash later goes on to solve successfully.
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Warren Ambrose Character Timeline in A Beautiful Mind
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Chapter 20 – Geometry
Warren Ambrose , a colleague of Nash’s at MIT, pens an angry letter to another mathematician in...
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...Nash solves the embedding theorem, many of the faculty members are pleased to support him—including Warren Ambrose , who had been skeptical of Nash’s ability to produce a result.
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