Sylvia Nasar

A Beautiful Mind

The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash

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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, 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.… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-7432-2637-0
EAN: 9780743226370
Produktnummer: 1086606
Verlag: Simon & Schuster N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
Seitenangabe: 624 S.
Masse: H17.1 cm x B10.9 cm x D3.5 cm 284 g
Abbildungen: s/w. Fotos
Gewicht: 284

Über den Autor

Sylvia Nasar is the author of the bestselling A Beautiful Mind, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography. She is the John S. and James. L Knight Professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.