A Beautiful Mind A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind

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Publisher Description

**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.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2011
July 12
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
464
Pages
PUBLISHER
Simon & Schuster
SELLER
Simon & Schuster Digital Sales LLC
SIZE
22.2
MB

Customer Reviews

Mustafa Abuhamdeh ,

Ascendancy and Abyss

Dr. John Nash, celebrated as one of the luminaries of the mathematical world, exuded an aura of undeniable genius during his sojourns within the hallowed halls of Ivy League institutions. Esteemed by peers and protégés alike, he garnered an unparalleled reputation for delving into the most abstruse mathematical and economic conundrums, challenging what many deemed insurmountable.

Yet, in an ironic twist of fate, this Nobel laureate's meteoric rise was later overshadowed by an ailment as relentless and formidable as his intellectual prowess: schizophrenia.

Sylvia Nasar's meticulously crafted biography of Nash offers an incisive exploration into the juxtaposition of his soaring intellectual summits and the abyss of mental tumult, painting a poignant portrait of brilliance and vulnerability intertwined.

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