A Beautiful Mind : A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr.
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (895 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0684819066 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 464 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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I wanted to like this book; I didn't. read_read_read I really disliked this book. I found Nash to be a jerk. His whole attitude and demeanor were repulsive to me. His lack of caring about his "first family" was appalling. The part I actually enjoyed about the book was all the math information. I am a bit of a nerd, so I enjoyed reading about his studies and game theory, etc. The writing and editing was not well done, either. Nasar makes several clumsy errors in terms of spelling and grammar. She refers to Sheppard Pratt in Baltimore and then . The best biography ever written Dr. Lee D. Carlson Mathematicians have received surprising attention in the last decade, some of this being negative and some positive. This book intends to give attention to a mathematician that is accurate as well as interesting. It succeeds in this in every way, and allows the reader an inside view of the mind of one of the most noted mathematicians of the twentieth century. It is now a cliche to say that when a book is good that one "cannot put it down", but this is what happened to me when I began to rea. Fascinating journey through genius and mental illness David Evans (Biography) Nasar tells the story of John Nash, mathematician and Nobel Prize winner in economics. The tale is fascinating, and the film based on the book (while excellent in its own way) is a mere shadow of the actual events.Perhaps one of the reasons the film was a loose representation is that John Nash, early in his life, is not a very sympathetic character. He is arrogant, obnoxious, and smart enough to get away with it as a young mathematician. He fathers a child out of wedlock and ref
Her story of the machinations behind Nash's Nobel is fascinating and one of very few such accounts available in print (the CIA could learn a thing or two from the Nobel committees). Or the "Phantom of Fine Hall," a figure many students had seen shuffling around the corridors of the math and physics building wearing purple sneakers and writing numerology treatises on the blackboards. But in 1994 Nash, in remission from schizophrenia, shared the Nobel Prize in economics for work done some 45 years previously.Economist and j
At the height of the McCarthy era, he was expelled as a security risk from the supersecret RAND Corporation -- the Cold War think tank where he was a consultant. A Beautiful Mind traces the meteoric rise of John Forbes Nash, Jr., from his lonely childhood in West Virginia to his student years at Princeton, where he encountered Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, and a host of other mathematical luminaries. At thirty, Nash was poised to take his dreamed-of place in the pantheon of history's greatest mathematicians. Then Nash suffered a catastrophic mental breakdown. In this dramatic and moving biography, Sylvia Nasar re-creates the life of a mathematical genius whose brilliant career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recovered and was honored with a Nobel Prize. They had a son. Nasar recounts the bitter behind-the-scenes battle in Stockholm over whether to grant the ultimate honor in science to a man thought to be "mad." She describes Nash's current ambition to pursue new ma