A Beautiful Mind Export
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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 Nasar's award-winning biography is a drama about the mystery of the human mind, triumph over incredible adversity, and the healing power of love.
PRODUCT DETAILS :
DIMENSION : 172 mm x 105 mm
PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Biography, Literature & Literary studies
Mathematics & Science
Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes
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 Nasar's award-winning biography is a drama about the mystery of the human mind, triumph over incredible adversity, and the healing power of love.
PRODUCT DETAILS :
| ISBN : 9780743226370 | |
| BY (AUTHOR) Nasar, Sylvia | |
| PUBLISHER : Simon & Schuster | PUBLICATION DATE : November 18, 2001 |
| COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United States | IMPRINT : Simon & Schuster |
| LANGUAGE : English | AGE : General |
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PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Biography, Literature & Literary studies
Mathematics & Science
Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes