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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0743224574
Release Date: Jan 1, 2002
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 5 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
"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 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.
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In this biography, Sylvia Nasar recreates the life of a mathematical genius whose brilliant career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recovered and was honored with a Nobel Prize. A Beautiful Mind traces the meteoric rise of John Forbes Nash, Jr., from his lonely childhood in West Virginia to his student years at Princeton, where he encountered Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, and a host of other mathematical luminaries. At 21, the handsome, ambitious, eccentric graduate student invented what would become the most influential theory of rational human behavior in modern social science. Nash's contribution to game theory would ultimately revolutionize the field of economics. At 30, Nash was poised to take his dreamed-of place in the pantheon of history's greatest mathematicians. Then Nash suffered a catastrophic mental breakdown. Nasar details Nash's harrowing descent into insanity - his bizarre delusions that he was the Prince of Peace; his resignation from MIT, flight to Europe, and attempt to renounce his American citizenship; his repeated hospitalizations, from the storied McLean, where he came to know the poet Robert Lowell, to the crowded wards of a state hospital; his "enforced interludes of rationality" during which he was able to return briefly to mathematical research. At age 66, twin miracles - a spontaneous remission of his illness and the sudden decision of the Nobel Prize committee to honor his contributions to game theory - restored the world to him. Nasar recounts the bitter behind-the-scenes battle in Stockholm over whether to grant the ultimate honor in science to a man thought to be "mad." She describes Nash's current ambition to pursue new mathematical breakthroughs and his efforts to be a loving father to his adult son.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 5 Average Rating:
GREAT
-- Adam Wilson, I am a movie lover, July 7, 2002
Also Recommended: the sum of all fears minority report
I am only done with the prologue
-- Andrew Dodson, a man obsessed with you, May 6, 2002
Also Recommended: Black Hawk Down, We Were Soldiers Once... and Young.
A cartoon movie vs. the works of the masters
-- David-Scott 'Doc' Collins, in love with reading., June 2, 2002
BEAUTIFULLY HANDLED
-- ELIZABETH, AN AVID READER, June 24, 2002
Also Recommended: SHORT OF A PICNIC
A sophisticated and elegant book
-- Steven, a mental health consumer, May 13, 2002
Also Recommended: 'The Music of Madness' by Tracy Harris (another fantastic read about mental illness and extraordinary talent)
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
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
A splendid book, deeply interesting and extraordinarily moving, remarkable for its sympathetic insights into both genius and schizophrenia. —Oliver Sacks
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. —Timothy Ferris
| |  | | | Prologue............................................................11
Part One: A Beautiful Mind
Part Two: Separate Lives
Part Three: A Slow Fire Burning
Part Four: The Lost Years Part Five: The Most Worthy
Notes..............................................................389
Select Bibliography................................................435
Acknowledgments....................................................439
Index..............................................................441
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