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Nasar, Sylvia.
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Nash, John F., Jr., 1928-2015.
Mathematicians -- United States -- Biography.
Mentally ill -- United States -- Biography.
Schizophrenics -- United States -- Biography.
Nobel Prize winners -- Biography.
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A beautiful mind : t...
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A beautiful mind : the life of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash / Sylvia Nasar ; [with a new foreword by the author].
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Nasar, Sylvia.
New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2011.
Subjects
Nash, John F., Jr., 1928-2015.
Mathematicians -- United States -- Biography.
Mentally ill -- United States -- Biography.
Schizophrenics -- United States -- Biography.
Nobel Prize winners -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781451628425 (paperback) :
1451628420 (paperback)
Description:
461 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition.
Contents:
Foreword -- Prologue -- Part One: A Beautiful Mind. 1. Bluefield (1928-45) ; 2. Carnegie Institute of Technology (June 1945-1948) ; 3. The Center of the Universe (Princeton, Fall 1948) ; 4. School of Genius (Princeton, Fall 1948) ; 5. Genius (Princeton, 1948-49) ; 6. Games (Princeton, Spring 1949) ; 7. John von Neumann (Princeton, 1948-49) ; 8. The Theory of Games ; 9. The Bargaining Problem (Princeton, Spring 1949) ; 10. Nash's Rival Idea (Princeton, 1949-50) ; 11. Lloyd (Princeton, 1950) ; 12. The War of Wits (RAND, Summer 1950) ; 13. Game Theory at RAND ; 14. The Draft (Princeton, 1950-51) ; 15. A Beautiful Theorem (Princeton, 1950-51) ; 16. MIT ; 17. Bad Boys ; 18. Experiments (RAND, Summer 1952) ; 19. Reds (Spring 1953) ; 20. Geometry -- Part Two: Separate Lives. 21. Singularity ; 22. A Special Friendship (Santa Monica, Summer 1952) ; 23. Eleanor ; 24. Jack ; 25. The Arrest (RAND, Summer 1954) ; 26. Alicia ; 27. The Courtship ; 28. Seattle (Summer 1956) ; 29. Death and Marriage (1956-57) -- Part Three: A Slow Fire Burning. 30. Olden Lane and Washington Square (1956-57) ; 31. The Bomb Factory ; 32. Secrets (Summer 1958) ; 33. Schemes (Fall 1958) ; 34. The Emperor of Antarctica ; 35. In the Eye of the Storm (Spring 1959) ; 36. Day Breaks in Bowditch Hall (McLean Hospital, April-May 1959) ; 37. Mad Hatter's Teas (May-June 1959) -- Part Four: The Lost Years. 38. Citoyen du Monde (Paris and Geneva, 1959-60) ; 39. Absolute Zero (Princeton, 1960) ; 40. Tower of Silence (Trenton State Hospital, 1961) ; 41. An Interlude of Enforced Rationality (July 1961-April 1963) ; 42. The "Blowing-Up" Problem (Princeton and Carrier Clinic, 1963-65) ; 43. Solitude (Boston, 1965-67) ; 44. A Man All Alone in a Strange World (Roanoke, 1967-70) ; 45. Phantom of Fine Hall (Princeton, 1970s) ; 46. A Quiet Life (Princeton, 1970-90) -- Part Five: The Most Worthy. 47. Remission ; 48. The Prize ; 49. The Greatest Auction Ever (Washington, D.C., December 1994) ; 50. Reawakening (Princeton, 1995-97) -- Epilogue.
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Relates how mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, Jr., suffered a breakdown at age thirty-one and was diagnosed with schizophrenia, but experienced a remission of his illness thirty years later.
Awards:
Winner, National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography.
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