Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Nasar, Sylvia frey50

A beautiful mind the life of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash / Life of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash Sylvia Nasar. - New York : Simon & Schuster, 2001. - 461 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Reprint. Previously published: A beautiful mind : a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994. 1st Touchstone ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1999. "A Touchstone book."

pt. 1. A beautiful mind -- pt. 2. Separate lives -- pt. 3. A slow fire burning -- pt. 4. The lost years -- pt. 5. The most worthy.

The true story of John Nash, the math genius who was a legend by age thirty when he slipped into madness; through the selflessness of a beautiful woman and the loyalty of the mathematics community he emerged after decades of ghostlike existence to win a Nobel Prize; now a major motion picture--Cover.

0743224574 (pbk.)


Nash, John F., 1928-


Mathematicians--United States
Mentally ill--United States
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