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A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994Read by Edward Herrmann. Abridged."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.
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 fo 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 incredivble adversity, and the healing power of love.The New York Times: Reads like a fine novel.
Oliver Sacks: Deeply interesting and extraordinarily moving.
The Boston Globe: Superbly written and eminently fascinating.John Forbes Nash, Jr. (born 1928, Bluefield, West Virginia) is an American mathematician working in the fields of game theory and differential geometry. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics 1994 “for the analysis of equilibrium in the theory of non-cooperative games” (together with Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi). Known to the general public mostly from Ron Howard's biographical drama A Beautiful Mind about his mathematical genius and struggle with schizophrenia.
A Beautiful Mind is a biographical drama by Ron Howard based on the book of the same name by S. Nazar, which tells about the life of John Forbes Nash, Nobel Prize winner in economics. The book was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1998.