Description |
461 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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"A Touchstone book." |
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Subtitle of 1998 edition: A biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [437]-439) and index. |
Contents |
pt. 1. A beautiful mind -- pt. 2. Separate lives -- pt. 3. A slow fire burning -- pt. 4. The lost years -- pt. 5. The most worthy. |
Summary |
The true story of John Nash, the math genius who was a legend by age thirty when he slipped into madness; through the selflessness of a beautiful woman and the loyalty of the mathematics community he emerged after decades of ghostlike existence to win a Nobel Prize; now a major motion picture--Cover. |
Subject |
Nash, John F., 1928-
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Mathematicians -- United States -- Biography.
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Mathematicians -- Biography.
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Nobel Prize winners -- Biography.
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Mental illness -- United States -- Biography.
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Mentally ill -- United States -- Biography.
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Schizophrenia -- United States -- Biography.
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Schizophrenics -- United States -- Biography.
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Schizophrenia -- Case studies.
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Genius and mental illness -- Case studies.
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Genius -- United States -- Biography.
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Genre |
Biographies.
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Added Title |
Life of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash |
Other Title |
Beautiful mind : a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994 |
Note |
Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994 |
ISBN |
0743224574 (pbk.) |
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