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A Beautiful Mind|Sylvia Nasar
A Beautiful Mind : The Life of Mathematical Genius and Novel Laureate John Nash
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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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  • ISBN-13: 9781451628425
  • ISBN-10: 1451628420
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publish Date: July 2011
  • Dimensions: 9.18 x 6.2 x 1.17 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.11 pounds
  • Page Count: 464

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