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A Beautiful Mind - Sylvia Nasar - unabridged library compact discs
SKU: 0786195819
- Written By: Sylvia Nasar
- Publisher: Blackstone Audio
- Published: December 2001
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| Written by Sylvia Nasar - Audio book narrated by Anna Fields - Unabridged Nonfiction - 16 COMPACT DISCS - 18.25 hours (tracks every 3 minutes) Publisher, Blackstone Audiobooks (January 2002) Now a major motion picture! Winner of 4 Golden Globe Awards In this powerful and dramatic biography, Sylvia Nasar vividly re-creates the life of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recovered and was honored with a Nobel Prize. A Beautiful Mind traces the meteoric rise of John Forbes Nash, Jr., a prodigy and legend by the age of thirty, who dazzled the mathematical world by solving a series of deep problems deemed "impossible" by other mathematicians. But at the height of his fame, Nash suffered a catastrophic mental breakdown and began a harrowing descent into insanity, resigning his post at MIT, slipping into a series of bizarre delusions, and eventually becoming a dreamy, ghostlike figure at Princeton, scrawling numerological messages on blackboards. He was all but forgotten by the outside world-until, remarkably, he emerged from his madness to win world acclaim. A feat of biographical writing, A Beautiful Mind is also a fascinating look at the extraordinary and fragile nature of genius. About the Author: Syliva Nasar is an economics correspondent for The New York Times and lives in Tarrytown, NY. |
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