GENIUS OF CRAZY???

John Nash won the Nobel Prize for a theory he wrote at 21. He also believed he was the emperor of Antarctica. This is the true story of one of the smartest men alive — and what happened when his mind started building a reality that wasn't real. From Princeton's "phantom" to a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia, from decades lost in delusion to a Nobel Prize three decades later — this is genius and madness from the exact same brain. If you liked this video, subscribe for more stories about the strangest sides of history's most brilliant and most broken minds.