A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994 Summary
Sylvia Nasar

A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994 Summary

A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar is the story of John Forbes Nash, Jr., the brilliant mathematician who was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 1994. The sad life of this mathematical genius was tainted with episodes of paranoid schizophrenia which basically interrupted a brilliant career as is indicated in the opening pages where he is hospitalized and telling a Harvard Professor visitor how he is receiving signals from outer space...

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