by Sylvia Nasar · Faber and Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571197187
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«A Beautiful Mind» is the biography of John Forbes Nash written by Sylvia Nasar, published by Faber and Faber in paperback (459 pages, in English).
The biography narrates the life of John Forbes Nash, Jr., mathematical genius and Nobel Prize winner in Economics: his intellectual rise, the schizophrenia that cut short his career, and his subsequent recovery. Sylvia Nasar places his story in the academic world of Princeton and portrays the relationship between creativity and madness.
Includes bibliography and index. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award (1998) and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (1999).
For readers interested in biographies of scientists, the history of mathematics, and stories about mental health.
Sylvia Nasar is an American journalist. She is best known for her biographical book of John Forbes Nash Jr., A Beautiful Mind, for which she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. Nasar is Knight Professor Emerita at Columbia University's School of Journalism.
