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A Beautiful Mind

The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash

By Sylvia Nasar

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| Paperback | 9780743224574

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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," camContinue

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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  • A Beautiful Mind By Sylvia Nasar

    Sylvia Nasar's biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., A Beautiful Mind, is a remarkable tale about one of the leading mathematicians of the 20th century. Nash is renowned for his contributions to both pure mathematics and to fields to which mathematics ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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    The book is much more interesting than the movie. I have been fortunate enough to have met many of the people mentioned in the book and Nash himself. It was a fun read.

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