A Beautiful Mind
Book description
**Also an Academy Award–winning film starring Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly—directed by Ron Howard**
The powerful, dramatic biography of math genius John Nash, who overcame serious mental illness and schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize.
“How could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials were sending you messages?” the visitor from…
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2 authors picked A Beautiful Mind as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
A stunning biography of a brilliant mathematician, John Forbes Nash, and his descent and resurrection from madness, that became a hit movie.
Nasar makes both the mathematics and the personality of an early, unusual and important game theorist come alive for even the most math-adverse reader. This is an unusual account of recovery, of a mind apprehending the world of human competition, and a poetical love and coming-of-age story.
From Ted's list on sizzling science books that simplify.
This is the life story of John Nash—wonderful and then sad and then amazing and finally tragic. One of the brightest stars of his generation – overwhelmed by mental illness. Followed by a rare recovery and the Nobel Prize in Economics for his paper on n-person games. And finally, of all the endings that were impossible but still came true, he was killed in a taxi accident on his way home from Stockholm.
From Gilbert's list on mathematicians and their lives.
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