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100 1 $aNasar, Sylvia.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98008484
245 12 $aA beautiful mind :$ba biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994 /$cSylvia Nasar.
260 $aNew York :$bSimon & Schuster,$c[1998], ©1998.
300 $a459 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [435]-437) and index.
520 $aIn this 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.
520 8 $aA 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 twenty-one, the handsome, ambitious, eccentric graduate student invented what would become the most influential theory of rational human behavior in modern social science.
520 8 $aNash's contribution to game theory would ultimately revolutionize the field of economics. 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.
520 8 $aNasar details Nash's harrowing descent into insanity - his bizarre delusions that he was the Prince of Peace; his resignation from MIT, flight to Europe, and attempt to renounce his American citizenship; his repeated hospitalizations, from the storied McLean, where he came to know the poet Robert Lowell, to the crowded wards of a state hospital; his "enforced interludes of rationality" during which he was able to return briefly to mathematical research.
520 8 $aAt age sixty-six, twin miracles - a spontaneous remission of his illness and the sudden decision of the Nobel Prize committee to honor his contributions to game theory - restored the world to him. 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 mathematical breakthroughs and his efforts to be a loving father to his adult sons.
600 10 $aNash, John F.,$cJr.,$d1928-2015.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96053516
650 0 $aMathematicians$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107560
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