A Beautiful Mind
$46.33
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2005
Summary
The Enigma of Genius: A Beautiful Mind
At the age of thirty-one, John Nash, a mathematical genius, suffered a devastating breakdown and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Yet, after decades of leading a ghost-like existence, he re-emerged to win a Nobel Prize and world acclaim. This award-winning biography is a drama about the mystery of the human mind, a triumph over incredible adversity, and the healing power of love.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780571212927 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0571212921 |
| Author: | Sylvia Nasar |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2005 |
| Weight: | 510g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 136mm x 35mm |
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“The New York Times” Reads like a fine novel.Oliver Sacks Deeply interesting and extraordinarily moving.“The Boston Globe” Superbly written and eminently fascinating.
About The Author
Sylvia Nasar
Sylvia Nasar was born in Bavaria in 1947 to a German mother and Uzbek father. Her family emigrated to the United States in 1951 and lived in New York and Washington, D.C. before moving to Ankara, Turkey in 1960. In 1965, she returned to the USA and attended Antioch College where she majored in literature. After working for several years, she entered the PhD programme in Economics at New York University, completing a Master’s degree in 1976. For a time, she did economics research, including with Nobel Laureate Wassily Leontief.
At the age of 35 Nasar became a journalist. Since 1983 she has been a writer at Fortune, a columnist at US News & World Report and a reporter at the New York Times where she currently covers economics. A Beautiful Mind, her first book, was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography and the Helen Bernstein Book Award.
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