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A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, JR., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994 Paperback - 1999

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In this powerful and dramatic biography Sylvia Nasar vividly re-creates the life of a mathematical genius whose 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., a prodigy and legend by the age of thirty, who dazzled the mathematical world by solving a series of deep problems deemed "impossible" by other mathematicians.

But at the height of his fame, Nash suffered a catastrophic mental breakdown and began a harrowing descent into insanity, resigning his post at MIT, slipping into a series of bizarre delusions, and eventually becoming a dreamy, ghostlike figure at Princeton, scrawling numerological messages on blackboards. He was all but forgotten by the outside world -- until, remarkably, he emerged from his madness to win world acclaim. A feat of biographical writing, "A Beautiful Mind" is also a fascinating look at the extraordinary and fragile nature of genius.

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  • Title A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, JR., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994
  • Author Sylvia Nasar
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Movie Tie-In
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster, New York
  • Date 1999
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780684853703 / 0684853701
  • Weight 1.13 lbs (0.51 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.23 x 6.11 x 1.08 in (23.44 x 15.52 x 2.74 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Mathematicians - United States, Nash, John F.
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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