A Beautiful Mind The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash by Sylvia Nasar - Textbook - Paperback - 2001 - from Bimmer1996 and Biblio.com

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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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"[This book] might be compared to a Rembrandt portrait, filled with somber shadows and radiant light effects, for it is the story of a dark madness illuminated by a man's genius....Nasar has delved deeply into Nash's year-by-year experiences. The detail does not weigh the story down though. Rather, her exhaustive research has been transformed into novelistic narrative....Superbly written and eminently fascinating, A BEAUTIFUL MIND is simply a beautiful book."

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

by Nasar, Sylvia

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Book desription: Touchstone. Near Fine with no dust jacket 2001. Paperback. 1.1 x 9.1 x 6.1 Inches; 464 pages; <P> 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. <P> "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." <P> 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. .

Bookseller: Bimmer1996 (US)
Bookseller Inventory #: 35257
Format/binding: Paperback
Book condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0743224574
ISBN 13: 9780743224574
Publisher: Touchstone
Date published: 2001
Pages: 461
Size: 6.25 x 9.25 x 1 inches
Dewey: 510/.92 B
Weight: 1.15 pounds
Keywords: General AAS, Qualifying Textbooks, Custom Stores, Specialty Stores, Books, Nash, John, Biographies & Memoirs, Scientists, Professionals & Academics