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"**Also an Academy Award-winning film starring Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly--directed by Ron Howard** The powerful, dramatic biography of math genius John Nash, who overcame serious mental illness and schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize.""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 for triggering the game theory revolution. The inspiration for an Academy Award-winning movie, Sylvia Nasar's now-classic biography is a drama about the mystery of the human mind, triumph over adversity, and the healing power of love."

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9781451628425

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The Boston Globe Superbly written and eminently fascinating.

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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.

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