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A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash Reissue Edition
Author(s): Sylvia Nasar (Author)
- Publisher: Touchstone
- Publication Date: December 4, 2001
- Edition: Reissue
- Language: English
- Print length: 464 pages
- ISBN-10: 0743224574
- ISBN-13: 9780743224574
Book Description
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 and world acclaim. The inspiration for a major motion picture, Sylvia Nasar’s award-winning biography is a drama about the mystery of the human mind, triumph over incredible adversity, and the healing power of love.
Editorial Reviews
Review
The Boston Globe Superbly written and eminently fascinating. — Review
About the Author
Sylvia Nasar is the author of the bestselling A Beautiful Mind, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography. She is the John S. and James. L Knight Professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
