I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at eith… — John Forbes Nash, Jr.

I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.Mathematician · American · b. 1928

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