Beautiful mind: John Nash

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ISBN-13Book number	nine trillion and seven hundred and eighty billion seven hundred and forty-three million two hundred and twenty-six thousand three hundred and seventy
Authorauthor	Sylvia Nasar
Formatedition	Paperback
Pages Numberthe number of pages	Page 619
Publisherpress	Scribner; 2002-03-01
Publication DateDate of publication	March 1, 2002
Product dimensionsProduct size	32 open 16.8 x 10.4 x 3.6 cm
Shipping WeightCommodity weight	281 g
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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 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.

About the AuthorBrief introduction to the author

Sylvia Nasar,A former economics correspondent for The New York Times, Sylvia Nasar is the Knight Professor of Journalism at Columbia University. She lives in Tarrytown, New York.

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Prologue
Part One: A Beautiful Mind
1 Bluefield(1928-45)
2 Carnegie Institute of Technology (June 1945-June 1948)
3 The Center of the Universe (Princeton, Fall 1948)
4 School of Genius (Princeton, Fall 1948)
5 Gerius (Princeton, 1948-49)
6 Games (Princeton, Spring 1949)
7 John yon Neannann (Princeton, 1948--49)
8 The Theory of Games
9 The Bargaining Problem (Princeton, Spring 1949)
10 Nashs Rival Idea (Princeton, 1949--50)
11 Lloyd (Princeton, 1950)
12 The War of Wits (RAND, Summer 1950)
13 Game Theory at RAND Prologue
Part One: A Beautiful Mind
1 Bluefield(1928-45)
2 Carnegie Institute of Technology (June 1945-June 1948)
3 The Center of the Universe (Princeton, Fall 1948)
4 School of Genius (Princeton, Fall 1948)
5 Gerius (Princeton, 1948-49)
6 Games (Princeton, Spring 1949)
7 John yon Neannann (Princeton, 1948--49)
8 The Theory of Games
9 The Bargaining Problem (Princeton, Spring 1949)
10 Nashs Rival Idea (Princeton, 1949--50)
11 Lloyd (Princeton, 1950)
12 The War of Wits (RAND, Summer 1950)
13 Game Theory at RAND
14 The Draft (Princeton,1950-51)
15 A Beautiful Theorem (Princeton, 1950--51 )
16 M1T
17 Bad Boys
18 Experiments(RAND, Summer 1952)
19 Reds(Spring1953)
20 Geometry
Part Two: Separate Lives
21 Singularity
22 A Special Friendsship (Santa Monica, Summer 1952)
23 Eleanor
24 Jack
25 The Arrest (RAND, Summer 1954)
26 Alicia
27 The Courtship
28 Seattle(Summer 1956)
29 Death and Marriage (1956-57)
Part Three: A Slow Fire Burning
30 OldenLane andWashirigton Square (1956-57)
31 The Bomb Factory
32 Secrets (Summer 1958)
33 Schemes(Fall 1958)
34 The Emperor of Antarctica
35 In the Eye of the Storm (Spring 1959)
36 Day Breaks in Bowditch Hall(McLean Hospital, April-May 1959)
37 Mad Hatters Tea(May-June 1959)
Part Four: The Lost Years
38 Citoyen du Monde (Paris and Geneva, 1959-60)
39 Absolute Zero (Princeton, 1960)
40 Tower of Silence (Trenton State Hospital, 1961)
41 An Interlude of Enforced Rationality(July 1961-Apri11963)
42 The "Blowing Up" Problem(Princeton and Carrier Clinic, 1963-65)
43 Solitude(Boston, 1965-67)
44 A Man All Alone in a Strange World(Roanoke, 1967-70)
45 Phantom of Fine Hall (Princeton, 1970s)
46 A Quiet Life (Princeton, 1970-90)
Part Five: The Most Worthy
47 Remission
48 The Prize
49 The Greatest Auction Ever(Washington, D.C., December 1994)
50 Reawakening (Princeton, 1995-97)
Epilogue
Notes
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgment
Index

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.co.uk Review
A Beautiful Mindin some ways could join the ranks of stories of famously eccentric Princetonians--such as that of chemist Hubert Alyea, the model forThe Absent-Minded Professor, or Ralph Nader, said to have had his own key to the library as an undergraduate. Another much-related story on campus concerns the "Phantom of Fine Hall", a figure many students had seen shuffling around the corridors of the maths and physics building wearing purple sneakers and writing numerology treatises on the blackboards. This was in fact John Nash, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of his generation, who had spiralled into schizophrenia in the 1950s. His most important work had been in game theory, which by the 1980s was underpinning a large part of economics. When the Nobel Prize committee began debating a prize for game theory, Nashs name inevitably came up--only to be dismissed, since the prize clearly could not go to a madman. But in 1994 Nash, in remission from schizophrenia, shared the Nobel Prize in economics for work done some 45 years previously.

Economist and journalist Sylvia Nasar has written a biography of Nash that looks at all sides of his life. She gives an intelligent, understandable exposition of his mathematical ideas and a picture of schizophrenia that is evocative but decidedly unromantic. Her story of the machinations behind Nashs Nobel is fascinating and one of very few such accounts available in print (the CIA could learn a thing or two from the Nobel committees) . This highly recommended book is indeed "a story about the mystery of the human mind, in three acts: genius, madness, reawakening".--Mary Ellen Curtin, .com

Roy Porter, The Times, 10 September 1998
A compelling book about a phenomenal figure. Sylvia Nasar manages to illuminate both the man and his maths.

Observer, 20 September 1998
An intriguing analysis of the tortured life of John Nash, mathematical genius and Nobel laureate extraordinary.

Times Higher Educational Supplement, 23 October 1998
As a gripping narrative, as an account of mental illness and as a study of a very interesting scholar, I think this book should find many readers.

Daily Telegraph, 21 November 1998
A detailed, sensitive and multi-sided account of the bizarre life of the mathematician John Nash.

Sunday Telegraph, 18 July 1999
(This)brilliantly combines an intellectual history of an abstruse branch of mathematics, a love story, and an investigation into genius and madness.

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