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Is there a transcript or audio recording of the lecture on Riemann Hypothesis by John Nash at Columbia University in 1959 anywhere?

The film A Beautiful Mind depicts this scene, and it is mentioned on wikipedia as well as many articles/books. John Nash famously gave a lecture to 250 mathemeticians at Columbia University in 1959 ...
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How much did John Nash contribute to proving the Riemann hypothesis?

At quite the end of the movie A Beautiful Mind, John Nash tells a student "I am making progress" (towards proving the Riemann hypothesis (RH)). Actually, how much did Nash contribute to the ...
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How many mathematical publications containing non-reprinted, original mathematics did John Nash publish?

American Mathematical Society lists 25 according to one of the comments in the thread below: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/207477/john-nashs-mathematical-legacy. However, as indicated in the ...
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