A Beautiful Mind Export: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0743226372 ISBN 13: 9780743226370

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster, 2001

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

The New York Times Reads like a fine novel.

Oliver Sacks Deeply interesting and extraordinarily moving.

The Boston Globe Superbly written and eminently fascinating.

L'autore:

Sylvia Nasar is the author of the bestselling A Beautiful Mind, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography. She is the John S. and James. L Knight Professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

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• Editore: Simon & Schuster
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0743226372
• ISBN 13: 9780743226370
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 619