A Beautiful Mind Sylvia Nasar

Name: A Beautiful Mind By Sylvia Nasar
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A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar

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A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar

A Beautiful Mind is Sylvia Nasar's award-winning biography about the mystery of the human mind, the triumph over incredible adversity, and the healing power of love. At the age of thirty-one, John Nash, mathematical genius, suffered a devastating breakdown and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Yet after decades of leading a ghost-like existence, he was to re-emerge to win a Nobel Prize and world acclaim. A Beautiful Mind has inspired the Oscar-winning film directed by Ron Howard and featuring Russell Crowe in the lead role of John Nash.

About Sylvia Nasar

Sylvia Nasar was born in Bavaria in 1947 to a German mother and Uzbek father. Her family emigrated to the United States in 1951 and lived in New York and Washington, DC, before moving to Ankara, Turkey, in 1960. In 1965, she returned to the USA and attended Antioch College where she majored in literature. After working for several years, she entered the PhD programme in Economics at New York University, completing a Master's degree in 1976. For a time, she did economics research, including with Nobel Laureate Wassily Leontief. At the age of thirty-five Nasar became a journalist. Since 1983 she has been a writer at Fortune, a columnist at US News & World Report and a reporter at the New York Times where she currently covers economics. A Beautiful Mind, her first book, was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography and the Helen Bernstein Book Award.

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Sku

GOR001136256

ISBN 13

9780571212927

ISBN 10

0571212921

Title

A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar

Author

Sylvia Nasar

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Year published

20020204

Number of pages

480

Prizes

N/A

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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

Note

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