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

Author:   Sylvia Nasar ,  Anna Fields ,  Anna Fields
Publisher:   Blackstone Publishing
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Publication Date:   01 April 2000
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A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash


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John Forbes Nash, Jr., a prodigy and legend by the age of thirty, dazzled the mathematical world by solving a series of deep problems deemed impossible by other mathematicians. But at the height of his fame, Nash suffered a catastrophic mental breakdown and began a harrowing descent into insanity, resigning his post at MIT, slipping into a series of bizarre delusions, and eventually becoming a dreamy, ghostlike figure at Princeton, scrawling numerological messages on blackboards. He was all but forgotten by the outside world--until, remarkably, he emerged from his madness to win the Nobel Prize. A Beautiful Mind is a story about the mystery of the human mind, in three acts: genius, madness, reawakening. A true drama, it is also a fascinating glimpse into the fragility of genius.

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Author:   Sylvia Nasar ,  Anna Fields ,  Anna Fields
Publisher:   Blackstone Publishing
Imprint:   Blackstone Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 4.80cm , Length: 15.00cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9781470847814


ISBN 10:   1470847817
Publication Date:   01 April 2000
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active
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A Beautiful Mind is a brilliant book--at once a powerful and moving biography of a great mathematical genius and an important contribution to American intellectual history. -- David Herbert Donald, New York Times bestselling author A Beautiful Mind is a splendid book, deeply interesting and extraordinarily moving, remarkable for its sympathetic insights into both genius and schizophrenia. It is equally gripping as a portrait of the mathematical community at Princeton and of Nash's friends and family, and the perhaps crucial part they played in his psychic survival and eventual emergence. -- Oliver Sacks, bestselling author of Awakenings A Beautiful Mind tells a moving story and offers a remarkable look into the arcane world of mathematics and the tragedy of madness. -- New York Times Book Review A notable biography...Nasar, an economics correspondent for the New York Times, is equally adept at probing the puzzle of schizophrenia and giving a non-technical context for Nash's mathematical and scientific ideas. -- Publishers Weekly Economist and journalist Sylvia Nasar has written a biography of Nash that looks at all sides of his life. She gives an intelligent, understandable exposition of his mathematical ideas and a picture of schizophrenia that is evocative but decidedly unromantic. Her story of the machinations behind Nash's Nobel is fascinating...highly recommended. -- Amazon.com, editorial review Every once in a while there appears a book on science that mirrors the splendor of its subject. Sylvia Nasar's A Beautiful Mind is such a book--an eloquent, heartbreaking, and heartwarming tale, told with elegance and assurance of a major writer. -- Timothy Ferris, author of Coming of Age in the Milky Way Nasar has written an intriguing account of a fascinating man, of a 'beautiful' mind, and of terrible madness. She has also written a deeply moving love story, an account of the centrality of human relationships in a world of nightmare and genius. -- New England Journal of Medicine Nasar tells a story of triumph, tragedy, and enduring love. -- Library Journal Nasar...provid[es] a sense of the rarefied and competitive atmosphere of mathematics departments in the nation's leading universities during the height of the Cold War. The peripheral characters of the book are vividly drawn, and episodes in Nash's life are painted with an extraordinary attention to detail. She also presents advanced mathematical theories in an accessible and palatable way. -- Kirkus Reviews Rarely has the fragility of the boundary separating genius from madness been illustrated with more compelling insight...Untangling the strands of this perplexing life requires the rare author who can explicate the complex rationality of differential calculus and also plumb the bizarre illogic of schizophrenia...Nasar tells the story of a great mind broken and then healed with subtle sympathy, which will touch any reader who understands what it means to hope--or to fear. -- Booklist Superbly written and eminently fascinating. -- Boston Globe


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Sylvia Nasar, a former economics correspondent for the New York Times, is the Knight Professor of Journalism at Columbia University. She lives in Tarrytown, New York. Anna Fields was born and raised in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. A scriptwriter for As the World Turns, she is also a successful playwright and stand-up comedian. She now lives in New York City.

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