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A beautiful mind : a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994 / Sylvia Nasar.
LIBRA QA29.N25 N37 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nasar, Sylvia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nash, John F., Jr., 1928-2015.
- Nash, John F.
- Mathematicians--United States--Biography.
- Mathematicians.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 459 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Touchstone edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 1999.
- Summary:
- Relates how mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, jr., suffered a breakdown at age thirty-one and was diagnosed with schizophrenia, but experienced a remission of his illness thirty years later.
- Contents:
- 1. Bluefield
- 2. Carnegie Institute of Technology
- 3. The center of the universe
- 4. School of genius
- 5. Genius
- 6. Games
- 7. John von Neumann
- 8. The theory of games
- 9. The bargaining problem
- 10. Nash's rival idea
- 11. Lloyd
- 12. The war of wits
- 13. Game theory at RAND
- 14. The draft
- 15. A beautiful theorem
- 16. MIT
- 17. Bad boys
- 18. Experiments
- 19. Reds
- 20. Geometry
- 21. Singularity
- 22. A special friendship
- 23. Eleanor
- 24. Jack
- 25. The arrest
- 26. Alicia
- 27. The courtship
- 28. Seattle
- 29. Death and marriage
- 30. Olden Land and Washington Square
- 31. The bomb factory
- 32. Secrets
- 33. Schemes
- 34. The Emperor of Antarctica
- 35. In the eye of the storm
- 36. Day breaks in Bowditch Hall
- 37. Mad Hatter's tea
- 38. Citoyen du Monde
- 39. Absolute zero
- 40. Tower of silence
- 41. An interlude of enforced rationality
- 42. The 'blowing up" problem
- 43. Solitude
- 44. A man all alone in a strange world
- 45. Phantom of Fine Hall
- 46. A quiet life
- 47. Remission
- 48. The prize
- 49. The greatest auction ever
- 50. Reawakening.
- Notes:
- "A Touchstone book."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-437) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0684853701
- 9780684853703
- 9780684819068
- 0684819066
- OCLC:
- 41299698
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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