by Sylvia Nasar · Mondadori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439709138
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«Una mente prodigiosa» is the biography of mathematician John Forbes Nash by Sylvia Nasar, published by Mondadori in paperback (599 pages, in Spanish).
The work narrates the life of John Forbes Nash from his beginnings at Princeton to the consequences of schizophrenia on his career, culminating in the recognition of his work with the Nobel Prize in Economics. The text combines the portrait of the mathematician with his personal life and his struggle against the illness.
Translation by Ricard Martínez i Muntada of the original title 'A Beautiful Mind'. Collection Las mil y una voces; bibliography on pp. 591-595.
For readers of biographies and non-fiction interested in the real story of John Forbes Nash and the origin of the movie 'Una mente maravillosa'.
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.
