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Simon & Schuster Audio, December 2001
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ISBN-10: 0743540751
ISBN-13: 9780743540759
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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 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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Browse Inside A Beautiful MindThe New York Times
Reads like a fine novel.
Oliver Sacks
Deeply interesting and extraordinarily moving.
The Boston Globe
Superbly written and eminently fascinating.
AnnArbor.com, October 13, 2011
...30 p.m. the Ann Arbor District Library's downtown site (343 S. Fifth Ave.) will host Professor Sylvia Nasar —economist, journalist and the author of "A Beautiful Mind," the mega-bestseller that inspired the Academy Award-winning film ...
Times Union, October 10, 2011
...is free and open to the public. ?Grand Pursuit? is Nasar?s long-awaited follow-up to her 1998 biography ?A Beautiful Mind,? the story of economist and mathematician John Nash?s breakthroughs and mental travails. Ron Howard?s film version won ...
Sify, October 9, 2011
...success makes a tempting target for imitators, and over the past decade, word spread among economics writers that Sylvia Nasar was at work on a new “Worldly Philosophers” — something to update and possibly supplant Heilbroner. Nasar is ...
New York Times, October 7, 2011
...doomed to failure. The English economist Alfred Marshall, in 1892. GRAND PURSUIT The Story of Economic Genius By Sylvia Nasar Illustrated. 558 pp. Simon & Schuster. $35. Keynes and Mises are of course both long dead. But it is the resilience ...
Huffington Post, September 30, 2011
...laureate of US), Jennifer Egan, Hoda Kotb, Gregory Maguire (Wicked author), Edmund Morris (Reagan and T Roosevelt biographer), Sylvia Nasar (A Beautiful Mind), Amy Chua (controversial "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother"), Isabel Wilkerson, ...
Fairmont Sentinel, September 28, 2011
...Read comments | Post a comment Sylvia Nasar wrote the book “A Beautiful Mind” about John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. The book became a film by the same name in ...
Bend Bulletin, September 18, 2011
...?Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius? by Sylvia Nasar (Simon & Schuster, 559 pgs., $35) Today?s economy may seem the bleakest in recent memory: plunging consumer confidence, slumping home prices, a stubbornly high unemployment rate. ...
The Hindu, June 4, 2011
...reading when Hollywood turns its media-savvy gaze on them. Russel Crowe's sensitive portrayal gave a boost to Sylvia Nasar's A Beautiful Mind about Nobel Laureate and mathematical genius John Nash's descent into paranoid schizophrenia. While ...
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