A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genuis and Nobel Laureate John Nash - Softcover

Nasar, Sylvia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1451628420 ISBN 13: 9781451628425

Verlag: Simon & Schuster, 2011

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Oliver Sacks Deeply interesting and extraordinarily moving.

"The New York Times" Reads like a fine novel.

"The Boston Globe" Superbly written and eminently fascinating.

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In this powerful and dramatic biography Sylvia Nasar vividly recreates 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.

“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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• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1451628420
• ISBN 13: 9781451628425
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 472