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

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. The inspiration for a major motion picture, Sylvia Nasars award-winning biography is a drama about the mystery of the human mind, triumph over incredible adversity, and the healing power of love.

Author: Sylvia Nasar

Language: English

Edition: 9th

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 464

Publisher: Touchstone

Publication Date: 2001-12-04