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

Nasar, Sylvia

ISBN 10: 0743224574 / ISBN 13: 9780743224574

Published by Touchstone, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
• Publisher: Touchstone
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743224574
• ISBN 13: 9780743224574
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

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.

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.