�HOW COULD YOU, A MATHEMATICIAN, BELIEVE THAT EXTRATERRESTRIALS WERE SENDING YOU MESSAGES?� the visitor from Harvard asked the West Virginian with the movie-star looks and Olympian manner. �Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way my mathematical ideas did,� came the answer. �So I took them seriously.� Thus begins the true story of John Nash, the mathematical genius who was a legend by age thirty when he slipped into madness, and who�thanks to the selflessness of a beautiful 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 about the mystery of the human mind, triumph over adversity, and the healing power of love.
Authors
Sylvia Nasar
Additional Info
- Release Date: 2011-07-12
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781451628425
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