The journey of Price, eccentric student at Harvard rejected delusional, was triggered by the desire to see your name written in the history of science.

"At one point, before moving to England, he was in contact with four Nobel prizes in four different research disciplines and each claimed to have made a discovery that would give him the fame."
The Hamilton's rule (rB> C) describes with elegance as behavioral interaction might evolve, as long as the benefit to the receiver (B), weighed according to the degree of relatedness (r), is greater than the cost (C) for who performs the action.
"And which he took with him, going directly to the office of professor of biostatistics at UCL (University College London), who introduced himself saying 'my name is George Price, this is my equation, what she has to say about it?' .
Previously Price had been immersed in the politics of the Cold War, while working on the Manhattan Project, and in the 50s he was writing articles aggressive to warn about the threat of communism and the need to finish first in the arms race.
In the film biography of Nash, A Beautiful Mind, we are shown as an example the group of friends who courts the most attractive girl in a bar; each thwarts attempts of others.
In November 1973, Price and Maynard Smith wrote an important article called "The Logic of Animal Conflict" which introduced the idea of Evolutionary Stable Strategy (ESS).
Driven by visions of Christ and embarrassed by the apparent black heart of altruism, Price had donated much of his fortune and of his money to the homeless and hard of Camden.
"If what science teaches us about love and giving is that it is never of selfless love and sacrifice, then there is a problem, and George decided to try to transcend this paradox," says Harman.
In a letter he sent to Maynard Smith in 1972, Price writes, "when I find myself owning only 15 pence ... I reassured him, saying that the divine standard of disaster will soon be made.

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