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Sylvia Nasar - A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994 |
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| Authors: |
Sylvia Nasar |
| Nonfiction Category: |
Biography & Autobiography · Mathematics · Psychology |
| Awards: |
1998 National Book Critics Circle Award |
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Wired: "This biography reads like a novel...." |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (December 01, 2001)
ISBN: 9780743226370 |
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| Publisher's Note: |
John Forbes Nash, Jr.--mathematical genius, inventor of a theory of rational behavior, visionary of the thinking machine--had been sitting with his visitor, also a mathematician for nearly an hour. |
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This biography analyzes how Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash's eccentric personality helped him to develop revolutionary mathematical processes, and chronicles the transformation of this prolific eccentricity into a 30-year bout of paranoid schizophrenia and eventual recovery in 1990. Nasar provides insights into this illness and its devastating effects through Nash's letters, interviews with his colleagues, and her own compilation of research in the field. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. |
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