A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash

by Sylvia Nasar | Biographies & Memoirs | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0743224574 Global Overview for this book
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Journal Entry 1 by wingbuttonbrightwing from Raleigh, North Carolina USA on Thursday, January 16, 2014
I found this book on the discount shelves of a local used book store.

“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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Journal Entry 3 by 123rainbow at Raleigh, North Carolina USA on Sunday, January 19, 2014
I will be reading this book soon.

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