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A beautiful mind : a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics / Sylvia Nasar.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating QA29.N25 N37 1998
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- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 459 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, [1998]
- Summary:
- In this dramatic and moving biography, Sylvia Nasar recreates the life of a mathematical genius whose brilliant career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recovered and was honored with a Nobel Prize. A Beautiful Mind traces the meteoric rise of John Forbes Nash, Jr., from his lonely childhood in West Virginia to his student years at Princeton, where he encountered Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, and a host of other mathematical luminaries. At 21, the handsome, ambitious, eccentric graduate student invented what would become the most influential theory of rational human behavior in modern social science. Nash's contribution to game theory would ultimately revolutionize the field of economics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [389]-437) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0684819066
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