Hex, invented by a genius, is not just for mathematicians.(The Dallas Morning News) From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: February 26, 2002| Author: Johnson, Jean Nash | COPYRIGHT 2002 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In `A Beautiful Mind,'' there's a dramatic campus scene in which Princeton graduate students surround a game board while two of them engage in intense play.

Board games were huge in the 1940s, especially among mathematicians, and the Princeton scene could very well have been an exchange from a round of Hex, a 1940s thinking/strategy game invented by math genius John Forbes Nash.

``A Beautiful Mind,''nominated for eight Academy Awards, is based on Nash's life....

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