Sylvia Nasar
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Sylvia Nasar (born 1947 in Rosenheim, Germany) is an American journalist and writer. A former economics reporter for the New York Times, she was recently named the Knight Chair in Business Journalism at Columbia University.
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[edit] a Beautiful Mind
She described the life of John Forbes Nash in A Beautiful Mind (Simon & Schuster), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1998 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The book was adapted for the screen in 2001. She is currently writing a book entitled Grand Pursuit.
[edit] Manifold Destiny
- For more details on this topic, see Manifold Destiny.
In the August 28, 2006, issue of The New Yorker she co-wrote Manifold Destiny (with David Gruber). The article contains the only media interview with Gregori Perelman, who solved the Poincare Conjecture and subsequently rejected the 2006 Fields Medal. The article's portrayal of the Fields Medalist S.T. Yau drew criticism, with some of the interviewees saying Nasar had taken their words out of context. Yau threatened, but has not filed, a lawsuit and created a website where he has posted responses to his depiction in Manifold Destiny.[1]
The New Yorker has responded by stating that it stands by the journalists and their reporting.[1]
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[edit] References
- ^ "New Yorker: Math prof’s charges don’t add up", Boston Herald, 20 Sept 2006
