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Sylvia Nasar - A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994

 
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Sylvia Nasar - A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994
 
 
 
 
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This biography analyzes how Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash's eccentric personality helped him to develop revolutionary mathematical processes, and chronicles the transformation of this prolific eccentricity into a 30-year bout of paranoid schizophrenia and eventual recovery in 1990. Nasar provides insights into this illness and its devastating effects through Nash's letters, interviews with his colleagues, and her own compilation of research in the field. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998.
 
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A Beautiful Mind - The TRUE Story of John Nash

Date of Review:  May 28, 2002
The Bottom Line: I loved this book, but I certainly cannot call it light reading. This is the true story of Nash's life - not Hollywood's version.
Review: I was drawn to purchase A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash by Sylvia Nasar because I was utterly fascinated by the movie. I was hoping the book would clear up a few points of confusion I had, and give me...
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  5.0

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Recommended to buy: No

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fascinating look at the real John Nash
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Irritating endnotes and a bit tough to...
 

A Beautiful Mind, A Difficult Book, A Rewarding Read

Date of Review:  Oct 25, 2002
The Bottom Line: Demanding of its audience, invaluable in its research, this is a book that, ultimately, you must read. Just don't pick it up on your way to the beach.
Review: Even though I picked A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Novel Laureate John Nash the day after I saw the film, I must warn the reader: I'm a total glutton for genius stories. This purchase would have been done movie or no movie...
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Thorough research, clear prose,...
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the unvarnished and unhollywood version

Date of Review:  Sep 26, 2003
The Bottom Line: Very good book....3 dimensional...covers a lot of territory and not overly long....fast read
Review: The book and the movie are two different works of art…I liked the movie very much when I saw it and was fascinated by John Nash's life. However, reading the book has provided so much more detail, which it always does!

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Authors Sylvia Nasar
Nonfiction Category Biography & Autobiography • Mathematics • Psychology
Nonfiction Subcategory Unknown
Awards 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award

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  Boston Book Review: "The story of Nash's accomplishments and tribulations, as told by Nasar, makes fascinating reading. We are captivated by the conjunction of genius and madness."

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  Format: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (December 01, 2001)
ISBN: 9780743226370

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  John Forbes Nash, Jr.--mathematical genius, inventor of a theory of rational behavior, visionary of the thinking machine--had been sitting with his visitor, also a mathematician for nearly an hour.
 
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