A Beautiful MindSimon and Schuster, 12 jul 2011 - 464 páginas **Also an Academy Award–winning film starring Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly—directed by Ron Howard** The powerful, dramatic biography of math genius John Nash, who overcame serious mental illness and schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize. “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 for triggering the game theory revolution. The inspiration for an Academy Award–winning movie, Sylvia Nasar’s now-classic biography is a drama about the mystery of the human mind, triumph over adversity, and the healing power of love. |
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Carnegie Institute of Technology June 19451948 | 40 |
The Center of the Universe Princeton Fall 1948 | 49 |
School of Genius Princeton Fall 1948 | 58 |
Genius Princeton 194849 | 66 |
Seattle Summer 1956 | 203 |
Death and Marriage 195657 | 208 |
A Slow Fire Burning | 213 |
Olden Lane and Washington Square 195657 | 215 |
The Bomb Factory | 222 |
Secrets Summer 1958 | 228 |
Schemes Fall 1958 | 235 |
The Emperor of Antarctica | 239 |
Games Princeton Spring 1949 | 75 |
John von Neumann Princeton 194849 | 79 |
The Theory of Games | 83 |
The Bargaining Problem Princeton Spring 1949 | 88 |
Nashs Rival Idea Princeton 194950 | 92 |
Lloyd Princeton 1950 | 99 |
The War of Wits RAND Summer 1950 | 104 |
Game Theory at RAND | 115 |
The Draft Princeton 195051 | 123 |
A Beautiful Theorem Princeton 195051 | 128 |
MIT | 133 |
Bad Boys | 139 |
Experiments RAND Summer 1952 | 147 |
Reds Spring 1953 | 152 |
Geometry | 155 |
Separate Lives | 165 |
Singularity | 167 |
A Special Friendship Santa Monica Summer 1952 | 169 |
Eleanor | 172 |
Jack | 180 |
The Arrest RAND Summer 1954 | 184 |
Alicia | 190 |
The Courtship | 199 |
In the Eye of the Storm Spring 1959 | 248 |
Day Breaks in Bowditch Hall McLean Hospital AprilMay 1959 | 253 |
Mad Hatters Teas MayJune 1959 | 262 |
Citoyen du Monde Paris and Geneva 195960 | 269 |
Absolute Zero Princeton 1960 | 283 |
Tower of Silence Trenton State Hospital 1961 | 288 |
An Interlude of Enforced Rationality July 1961April 1963 | 295 |
The BlowingUp Problem Princeton and Carrier Clinic 196365 | 305 |
Solitude Boston 196567 3 14 | 314 |
A Man All Alone in a Strange World Roanoke 196770 | 323 |
Phantom of Fine Hall Princeton 1970s | 332 |
A Quiet Life Princeton 197090 | 340 |
The Most Worthy | 347 |
Remission | 349 |
The Prize | 356 |
The Greatest Auction Ever Washington D C December 1994 | 374 |
Reawakening Princeton 199597 | 379 |
Epilogue | 389 |
Notes | 391 |
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Acknowledgments | 441 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todo
A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash Sylvia Nasar Vista previa restringida - 2001 |
A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash Sylvia Nasar Vista de fragmentos - 2001 |
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