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A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
by Nasar, Sylvia
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0743224574
- ISBN 13
- 9780743224574
- Seller
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La Porte, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, USA: Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks, 2001. BX6 - A trade paperback book in very good condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with very light overall shelf wear plus there is some very light soiling on the outside paper edges. A biography of a young mathematician who was a legend in mathematics by the age of thirty but then he slipped into madness. With help though he was able to emerge from this ghost-like existence and won a Nobel Prize and world acclaim. This is the basis for the film by the same name. Illustrated with black and white photographs. This book is a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography and is a New York Times Notable Book. Endnotes, bibliography, indexed, 461p.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 6.25"x9.25".
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- Bookmarc's
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SCW05439
- Title
- A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
- Author
- Nasar, Sylvia
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0743224574
- ISBN 13
- 9780743224574
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- Nonfiction Non-fiction Biography Math Mathematics Mathematician Mathematicians History of Science History of Technology Mental Health Psychology Psychiatry Schizophrenia Human Mind Nobel Prize Winner
- Bookseller catalogs
- Medicine & Health; Biography / Biography: M-R; Medicine & Health / Mental Illness; Fiction / Movie & TV Tie-Ins;
- Size
- 6.25"x9.25"
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