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.

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 fo a beautiful woman and the loyalty of the mathematics community -- emerged after decades of ghostlike exixstence to win a Nobel Prize and world acclaim, the inspiration for a major motion picutre. Sylvia Nasar's award-winning biography is a drama about the mystery of the human mind, triumph over incredivble adversity, and the healing power of love.

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The movie makes him more likable, which is understandable. The book tells much more of the entire story of his life, good and bad.

Interesting aspects of Nash's history are his deadbeat dad, his relationship with Eleanor Stier, and his continuing to hang out at Princeton University when he was ill. This is a very interesting biography about the Nobel Prize winner, John Nash. I was fascinated by the seeming remission of his schizophrenia as Nash aged.Nash has a beautiful mind and I applaud Ms.Nasar for writing this book. I was pleased to learn that his colleagues and students treated Nash with respect even when he was at his worst. The math and economics in this book were beyond my ability to understand. What I focused on was the presentation of Nash's mind, social interactions, mental illness, and bi-sexuality.

Unfortunately, she did not live long after that and it has been a traumatic loss for my entire family. I love this book. John Nash was saved and brought back to full health by a little love and acceptance of him for what he was and the patience to see him through his difficulty rather than all the drugs man can come up with and all the mind boggling brain zapping treatments we can dream up that we are experimenting with. I wonder sometimes if in our haste to make sure everything is fixed and is perfect that we go too far into the latest trick remedy and cause much more harm than good rather than relying on what has been the most powerful remedy mankind has ever known since the dawn of time. It is perhaps one of my favorite books of all time because it speaks so much of what is happening to so many of us in these times. My sister-in-law became afflicted with a mental difficulty that was problematic enough that she was given the treatments described for John Nash.

Facinatingly chronicles a period in time when all the rules were changing. A well written informatiive book. Deals with the closeness of madness and genuis, not just in John Nash.