A Beautiful Mind
A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994
Book - 1998
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.
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Publisher:
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, c1998
ISBN:
9780743224574
0743224574
9780684819068
0684819066
9780684853703
0684853701
0743224574
9780684819068
0684819066
9780684853703
0684853701
Characteristics:
459 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Alternative Title:
Beautiful mind
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Add a CommentI only finished this biography because I said I would.
John was so repulsive and abusive that I felt like I was wasting my time reading about him.
The book IS well written though.
Well written and certainly thorough. John Nash lived an interesting life, but he doesn't come across as a particularly likable person (or one to whom it is particularly easy to relate).
A beautiful mind and a beautiful biography. They don't come better than this. A great read.
The movie's fine as a dramatization (although not great as an adaptation, and often more fiction than fact), but the book is much better. The real story would be hard to film properly, since the drama is as much one of ideas as of people.
Finalist 1999 Pulitzer prize.