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 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 Grigori Perelman, who solved the Poincaré conjecture and subsequently rejected the 2006 Fields Medal.
The article investigates Fields Medalist S.T. Yau and his protégées who promoted their publication by claiming it was the first “complete proof” of the Poincaré conjecture. Four months after the appearance of Manifold Destiny, the “complete proof” claim was retracted and the article re-submitted [1]with an erratum [1]. The Asian Journal of Mathematics editorial board also issued an apology.[2]
[edit] External links
- Columbia University Faculty Page
- Interview with Sylvia Nasar
- Biography by Royce Carlton Inc.
- Lecture by Sylvia at MIT about John Nash
[edit] References
- ^ Huai-Dong Cao, Xi-Ping Zhu (December 3, 2006). "Hamilton-Perelman's Proof of the Poincaré Conjecture and the Geometrization Conjecture". arXiv:math.DG/0612069.
