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 A Beautiful Mind - Sylvia Nasar
Description: ISBN 571212921 / Author: Sylvia Nascar / Genre: Biography Newest Review: ... career, he rarely attended classes, his handwriting was now almost unreadable with misspellings as a result of dyslexia, and ... more  ... he had to have lined notepaper. But he learned through conversations and by attending visiting lecturers. And
he did spend an awfully long time just thinking, which is key to solving any maths problem. At the age of twenty, Nash began his studies at Princeton, where he rubbed shoulders with scientific legends Einstein and John von Neumann, the man considered by many to be the most brilliant mind of the twentieth century. Nasar provides...more |
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A Beautiful Mind - Sylvia Nasar: ..but an ugly personality! (2478 words)
by phoebe1 - written on 01.08.03 (Very useful, 535 readings)
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A Beautiful Mind is the biography of John Nash, the mathematical genius whose work on game theory provided a new basis for modern mathematical economics. At the age of thirty-one he suffered a mental breakdown and was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. If you haven't yet seen the film then I would recommend you read the reviews here on dooyoo by sandrabarber and lookaroundcafe2, which eloquently summarise my own opinion on this movie. The book lifts the lid on the true story of the man, stripping away the romanticized Hollywood treatment, and the person described here could not be more different to the character played by Russell Crowe. ...
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