Beautiful Mind : The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash

Name: Beautiful Mind : The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
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ISBN: 9780743509893

ISBN-10: 0743509897

ISBN-13: 9780743509893

Edition: 2001

Authors: Sylvia Nasar

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"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. 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 fo a beautiful woman and the loyalty of the mathematics community -- emerged after decades of ghostlike exixstence to win a Nobel Prize and world acclaim, the inspiration for a major motion picutre. Sylvia Nasar's award-winning biography is a drama about the mystery of the human mind, triumph over incredivble adversity, and the healing power…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Binding: Compact Disc
Size: 4.75" wide x 6.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Sylvia Nasar, an economic correspondent for the New York Times, is the author of A Beautiful Mind. The book is a biography of mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, Jr. Nasar's book details, his rise, decline into mental illness, recovery, and winning of the Nobel Prize for Economics.