A beautiful mind : a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994
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A beautiful mind : a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994
（A Touchstone book）
Simon & Schuster, 1999, c1998
- : pbk
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Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration (RIEB) Library , Kobe University図書
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-437) and index
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In this powerful and dramatic biography Sylvia Nasar vividly re-creates the life of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recovered and was honored with a Nobel Prize. "A Beautiful Mind" traces the meteoric rise of John Forbes Nash, Jr., a prodigy and legend by the age of thirty, who dazzled the mathematical world by solving a series of deep problems deemed "impossible" by other mathematicians. But at the height of his fame, Nash suffered a catastrophic mental breakdown and began a harrowing descent into insanity, resigning his post at MIT, slipping into a series of bizarre delusions, and eventually becoming a dreamy, ghostlike figure at Princeton, scrawling numerological messages on blackboards. He was all but forgotten by the outside world -- until, remarkably, he emerged from his madness to win world acclaim. A feat of biographical writing, "A Beautiful Mind" is also a fascinating look at the extraordinary and fragile nature of genius.
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