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A Beautiful Mind

Pages
556
Published
1999
Language
English

Synopsis

This biography tells the remarkable story of John Forbes Nash Jr., a brilliant mathematician whose life took a turn when he was diagnosed with schizophrenia in his early thirties. It chronicles his struggles with mental illness and his eventual, unexpected remission decades later. The book explores the profound impact of his condition on his personal and professional life, as well as his groundbreaking contributions to mathematics and economics.

About the author

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Sylvia Nasar

Sylvia Nasar is an Uzbek German-born American journalist. She is best known for her biography of John Forbes Nash Jr., A Beautiful Mind, for which she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. [--Wikipedia](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Nasar) Photo Attribution: Knight Foundation, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons