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The true story of John Nash, the math genius who was a legend by age thirty when he slipped into madness; through the selflessness of a beautiful woman and the loyalty of the mathematics community he emerged after decades of ghostlike existence to win a Nobel Prize; now a major motion picture--Cover.… (más)
Sylvia Nasar, an economics correspondent for the New York Times, presents the life "without theory" of John Forbes Nash Jr., a mathematical genius and inventor of theories of rational behavior, who was a Wunderkind at Princeton when it was populated by the likes of Albert Einstein, John von Neumann and other 20th century luminaries.
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Another race hath been, and other palms are won. / Thanks to the human heart by which we live, / Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, / To me the meanest flower that blows can give / Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. -- William Wordsworth, "Intimations of Immortality"
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John Forbes Nash, Jr. - mathematical genius, inventor of a theory of rational behavior, visionary of the thinking machine - had been sitting with his visitor, also a mathematician, for nearly half an hour.
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As we leave him now he is perhaps just hurrying under the Eisenhart gate on his way to Fine Hall...or sitting next to Alicia on the living-room sofa watching Dr. Who on the big television...or losing a game of chess to Johnny...or spending 105 minutes on the telephone comforting Lloyd Shapley after his wife's death...or giving Harold Kuhn a look like a naughty boy's when Harold asks whether the lecture notes for Pisa are ready...or sitting at the institute math table with his lunch tray, nodding while Enrico Bombieri, who has just read the love letters of Carrington, bemoans the lost art of letter writing...or, after listening to an astronomy lecture, gazing through a telescope at some distant star glimmering in the night sky...
The true story of John Nash, the math genius who was a legend by age thirty when he slipped into madness; through the selflessness of a beautiful woman and the loyalty of the mathematics community he emerged after decades of ghostlike existence to win a Nobel Prize; now a major motion picture--Cover.
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