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A Beautiful Mind / Sylvia Nasar. - London : Faber and Faber, 1998. - 461, [2] strony, [8] stron tablic : fotografie ; 21 cm.

Author

Nasar Sylvia (1947- ) Autor Amsterdamski Piotr (1955-2008)

Form of Work

Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

Subject

Nash, John F. (1928-2015) Matematycy Teoria gier Schizofrenia

Genre/Form

Biografia

In this powerful and dramatic biography Sylvia Nasar vividly re-creates the life of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recovered and was honored with a Nobel Prize. A Beautiful Mind traces the meteoric rise of John Forbes Nash, Jr., a prodigy and legend by the age of thirty, who dazzled the mathematical world by solving a series of deep problems deemed "impossible" by other mathematicians.

But at the height of his fame, Nash suffered a catastrophic mental breakdown and began a harrowing descent into insanity, resigning his post at MIT, slipping into a series of bizarre delusions, and eventually becoming a dreamy, ghostlike figure at Princeton, scrawling numerological messages on blackboards. He was all but forgotten by the outside world -- until, remarkably, he emerged from his madness to win world acclaim. A feat of biographical writing, "A Beautiful Mind" is also a fascinating look at the extraordinary and fragile nature of genius.

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Literatura w języku angielskim.

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