by Sylvia Nasar · Círculo de Lectores. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422694595
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«Una mente prodigiosa», by Sylvia Nasar, is the biography of mathematician John Nash published by Círculo de Lectores in paperback (569 pages, in Spanish).
The book follows the life of John Forbes Nash Jr. and his contributions to game theory and differential geometry. The narrative focuses on the schizophrenia Nash suffered, its impact on his career and surroundings, and his return to research until the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994.
Translation by Ricard Martínez i Muntada; original title «A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash».
Work of interest to readers of biographies, 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.
