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  A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Novel Laureate John Nash (Paperback) By (author) Sylvia Nasar

  

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  Short Description for A Beautiful Mind"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 geniu...
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  • Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER
  • Published: 12 July 2011
  • Format: Paperback 461 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: General | Biography: Science, Technology & Engineering | Autobiography: Science, Technology & Engineering | Abnormal Psychology | Mathematics | Science: General Issues | History Of Engineering & Technology
  • ISBN 13: 9781451628425 ISBN 10: 1451628420
  • Sales rank: 166,116

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• "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.