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Beautiful Mind

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ISBN-10: 0743224574

ISBN-13: 9780743224574

Edition: 2001 (Movie Tie-In)

Authors: Sylvia Nasar

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List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 12/4/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Sylvia Nasar is an economic correspondent for the New York Times. She was born in Germany and earned her master's degree in Economics from NYU in 1976. She is an economist and author who is best known for her nonfiction book, A Beautiful Mind. The book is a biography of mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, Jr. Nasar's book details Nash's rise, decline into mental illness, recovery, and winning of the Nobel Prize for Economics.

Prologue
A Beautiful Mind
Bluefield(1928-45)
Carnegie Institute of Technology(June 1945-June 1948)
The Center of the Universe(Princeton, Fall 1948)
School of Genius(Princeton, Fall 1948)
Genius(Princeton, 1948-49)
Games(Princeton, Spring 1949.)
John von Neumann(Princeton, 1948-49)
The Theory of Games
The Bargaining Problem(Princeton, Spring 1949)
Nash's Rival Idea(Princeton, 1949-50)
Lloyd(Princeton, 1950)
The War of Wits(RAND, Summer 1950)
Game Theory at RAND
The Draft(Princeton, 195O-51)
A Beautiful Theorem(Princeton, 1950-51)
MIT
Bad Boys
Experiments(RAND, Summer 1952)
Reds(Spring 1953)
Geometry
Separate Lives
Singularity
A Special Friendship(Santa Monica, Summer 1952)
Eleanor
Jack
The Arrest(RAND, Summer 1954)
Alicia
The Courtship
Seattle(Summer 1956)
Death and Marriage(1956-57)
A Slow Fire Burning
Olden Lane and Washington Square(1956-57)
The Bomb Factory
Secrets(Summer 1958)
Schemes(Fall 1958)
The Emperor of Antarctica
In the Eye of the Storm(Spring 1959)
Day-Breaks in Bowditch Hall(McLean Hospital, April-May, 1959)
Mad Hatter's Tea(May-June 1959)
The Lost Years
Citoyen du Monde(Paris and Geneva, 1959-60)
Absolute Zero(Princeton, 1960)
Tower of Silence(Trenton State Hospital, 1961)
An Interlude of Enforced Rationality(July 1961-April 1963)
The "Blowing Up" Problem(Princeton and Carrier Clinic, 1963-65)
Solitude(Boston, 1965-67)
A Man All Alone in a Strange World(Roanoke, 1967-70)
Phantom of Fine Hall(Princeton, 1970s)
A Quiet Life(Princeton, 1970-90)
The Most Worthy
Remission
The Prize
The Greatest Auction Ever(Washington, D.C., December 1994)
Reawakening(Princeton, 1995-97)
Notes
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index