A beautiful mind : the life of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash / Sylvia Nasar ; [with a new foreword by the author].
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TextPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2011.Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster trade pbk. edDescription: 461 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781451628425
- 1451628420
- Life of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
**Also an Academy Award-winning film starring Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly--directed by Ron Howard**
The powerful, dramatic biography of math genius John Nash, who overcame serious mental illness and schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize.
"How could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials were sending you messages?" the visitor from Harvard asked the West Virginian with the movie-star looks and Olympian manner. "Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way my mathematical ideas did," came the answer. "So I took them seriously."
Thus begins the true story of John Nash, the mathematical genius who was a legend by age thirty when he slipped into madness, and who--thanks to the selflessness of a beautiful woman and the loyalty of the mathematics community--emerged after decades of ghostlike existence to win a Nobel Prize for triggering the game theory revolution. The inspiration for an Academy Award-winning movie, Sylvia Nasar's now-classic biography is a drama about the mystery of the human mind, triumph over adversity, and the healing power of love.
Originally published in 1998.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-439) and index.
pt. 1. A beautiful mind -- pt. 2. Separate lives -- pt. 3. A slow fire burning -- pt. 4. The lost years -- pt. 5. The most worthy.
Relates how mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, Jr., suffered a breakdown at age thirty-one and was diagnosed with schizophrenia, but experienced a remission of his illness thirty years later.