Even for the brightest of minds, the debt crisis in Europe is hard to decipher. 'It is a Greek tragedy. I am not quite sure I even understand it,' said Professor John Nash.
Speaking yesterday at the Diocesan Girls' School in Jordan, the 1994 Nobel laureate for economics, shared his views on current affairs with an audience of more than 100 secondary and university students.
He also told his audience he was still working on aspects of game theory - for which he won the Nobel - as well as cosmology and space time.
And he said music had always played a big part in his life even though he never learned to play an instrument.
'It was important to me, psychologically,' said Nash, 83, who struggled with paranoid schizophrenia for much of his life.
During the event, sponsored by Polytechnic University, three students sat with him, asked questions and chose participants in the audience. Timid at first, more than a dozen hands rose as the event drew to a close.