Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, JR., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994

Title: Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, JR., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994 Author: Sylvia Nasar ISBN: 9780684853703 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Published: 1999 Binding: Paperback Language: English Publisher Description: 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 delusi