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A Beautiful Mind - Sylvia Nasar

A Beautiful Mind

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Buch | Softcover
464 Seiten
2002 | Film tie-in edition
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-21292-7 (ISBN)
CHF 20,90 inkl. MwSt
A biography of a mathematical genius who at the age of thirty-one, suffered from a devastating breakdown and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Yet after decades of leading a ghost-like existence, he was to re-emerge to win a Nobel Prize and world acclaim.
At the age of thirty-one, John Nash, mathematical genius, suffered a devastating breakdown and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Yet after decades of leading a ghost-like existence, he was to re-emerge to win a Nobel Prize and world acclaim. The inspiration for a major motion picture directed by Ron Howard, Sylvia Nasar's award-winning biography is a drama about the mystery of the human mind, a triumph over incredible adversity, and the healing power of love.

Sylvia Nasar was born in Bavaria in 1947 to a German mother and Uzbek father. Her family emigrated to the United States in 1951 and lived in New York and Washington, DC, before moving to Ankara, Turkey, in 1960. In 1965, she returned to the USA and attended Antioch College where she majored in literature. After working for several years, she entered the PhD programme in Economics at New York University, completing a Master's degree in 1976. For a time, she did economics research, including with Nobel Laureate Wassily Leontief. At the age of thirty-five Nasar became a journalist. Since 1983 she has been a writer at Fortune, a columnist at US News & World Report and a reporter at the New York Times where she currently covers economics. A Beautiful Mind, her first book, was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography and the Helen Bernstein Book Award.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 4.2.2002
Zusatzinfo 8pp b&w illustrations
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 135 x 216 mm
Gewicht 522 g
Einbandart kartoniert
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Allgemeines / Lexika
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Angewandte Mathematik
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik
Schlagworte John F. Nash • John Nash
ISBN-10 0-571-21292-1 / 0571212921
ISBN-13 978-0-571-21292-7 / 9780571212927
Zustand Neuware
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