A Beautiful Mind

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On this powerful and dramatic biography Sylvia Nasar vividly recreates the life of a mathematical genius whose career used to be cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recovered and used to be honored with a Nobel Prize.

“How could you, a mathematician, consider that extraterrestrials were sending you messages?” the visitor from Harvard asked the West Virginian with the movie-star looks and Olympian manner. “Since the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the similar way my mathematical ideas did,” came the answer. “So I took them seriously.”

Thus begins the real story of John Nash, the mathematical genius who used to be a legend by age thirty when he slipped into madness, and who—way to the selflessness of an attractive woman and the loyalty of the mathematics community—emerged after decades of ghostlike existence to win a Nobel Prize for triggering the game theory revolution. The inspiration for an Academy Award–winning movie, Sylvia Nasar’s now-classic biography is a drama concerning the mystery of the human mind, overcome adversity, and the healing power of love.


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