A Beautiful Mind (book)
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| Author | Sylvia Nasar |
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| Original title | A beautiful mind: a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994 |
| Country | United States of America |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Biography |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Released | 1998 |
| Pages | 459 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-68481-906-6 |
A Beautiful Mind is an unauthorized biography of Nobel Prize-winning economist and mathematician John Forbes Nash by Sylvia Nasar, a New York Times economics correspondent. It inspired the 2001 film with the same name.
The book is a biography of Nash, starting with his childhood, over his years at Princeton and MIT, his work for the RAND Corporation to his trouble with schizophrenia. It ends with the awarding of the Nobel prize in 1994. The book is a detailed description of all aspects of Nash's life and a close examination of his personality and motivation.
The book won the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize for biography, as well as making the New York Times bestseller list. It is particularly notable for describing Nash's genius as well as his struggle with mental illness.
