A beautiful mind : the life of mathematical genius and Nobel laureate John Nash

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How could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials were sending you messages?" the visitor from Harvard asked the West Virginian with the movie-star looks and Olympian manner. "Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way my mathematical ideas did," came the answer. "So I took them seriously." Thus begins the true story of John Nash, the mathematical genius who was a legend by age thirty when he slipped into madness, and who -- thanks to the selflessness of a beautiful woman and the loyalty of the mathematics community -- emerged after decades of ghostlike existence to win a Nobel Prize and world acclaim. The inspiration for a major motion picture, Sylvia Nasar's award-winning biography is a drama about the mystery of the human mind, triumph over incredible adversity, and the healing power of love. … celý popis

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Hlavní autor:

Sylvia Nasar

Další autoři:

John F. Nash, 1928-2015

Typ dokumentu:

Knihy

Rozsah:

461 s.

Vydáno:

New York : Simon and Schuster, c1998

Témata:

Historie matematiky > 01A

Matematika všeobecně > 00

monografie

Fyzický popis:

461 s.

Bibliografie:

Bibliogr., rejstř.

ISBN:

0-7432-2457-4