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Economist and journalist Sylvia Nasar has written a biography of Nash that looks at all sides of his life. She gives an intelligent, understandable exposition of his mathematical ideas and a picture of schizophrenia that is evocative but decidedly unromantic. Her story of the machinations behind Nash's Nobel is fascinating and one of very few such accounts available in print (the CIA could learn a thing or two from the Nobel committees). This highly recommended book is indeed "a story about the mystery of the human mind, in three acts: genius, madness, reawakening". --Mary Ellen Curtin, Amazon.com -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Taschenbuch .
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Economist and journalist Sylvia Nasar has written a biography of Nash that looks at all sides of his life. She gives an intelligent, understandable exposition of his mathematical ideas and a picture of schizophrenia that is evocative but decidedly unromantic. Her story of the machinations behind Nash's Nobel Prize is fascinating and one of very few such accounts available in print (the CIA could learn a thing or two from the Nobel committees). This highly recommended book is indeed "a story about the mystery of the human mind, in three acts: genius, madness, reawakening." -- Mary Ellen Curtin -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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AMONG JOHN NASH'S EARLIEST MEMORIES is one in which, as a child of about two or three, he is listening to his maternal grandmother play the piano in the front parlor of the old Tazewell Street house, high on a breezy hill overlooking the city of Bluefield, West Virginia. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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Interesting Read,
Rezension bezieht sich auf: A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994 (Taschenbuch)
This book is not just for mathematicians or those in the field of hard sciences - but for anyone who wants to have some clarity on certain aspects of life itself. Sylvia Nasar manages to write about the life of John Forbes Nash, a mathematician, from his college years which began in 1948, to his years of maturity and ends the book in 1997. She tells a very important story that captures the organizational culture of math departments throughout colleges and universities across the country, homosexuality during the McCarthy era, mental illness and the recovery of mental illness, relationships and the importance of them, as well as mathematical theorems - how they developed and the use of them. This book sheds some light on why mathematicians set themselves apart from other disciplines. Her story does not only belong to Nash but to many other mathematicians whose story was similar. Read this book if you are interested in what contributes to scientist going "mad." It lends credence to the term the "zany professor."Also, if you really pay attention, you can figure out how mathematical equations apply to everyday life...and how many decisions in the political and economic arena are not made unless the situation is applied to a mathematical equation. We are introduced to the game theory and how Nash modified the theory by introducing equilibrium points. All games do not have to end up with a winner and a loser, especially if cooperation is introduced, according to Nash. The scientific jargon gets ever so boring as we read through several chapters on the military's dependence on academia in an effort to be competitive with Russia back in the 1950s and 1960's. The author introduces the reader to every mathematician Nash ever read about, worked with and admired. We are inundated with names and theorems that many readers will never encounter again unless a mathematician. Nasar is very wordy almost as though she has the inability to get to the point. The book is laced with trivial background information on people who were insignificant to the story Nasar is attempting to narrate. While the book is easy to put down, it is also easy to pick up again. Something keeps drawing you to Nasar's written pages. By the time I got to the end of the first full paragraph on page 362, I wept. I wept because Nash was questioning whether it was okay for him to eat in the faculty cafeteria at Princeton....a place where he had eaten many times as an established mathematician, a place where he learned, taught others, and oftentimes held court. I wept for Nash and others like him....for the turmoil that a mental illness takes one through and how people react to those who are mentally imbalanced. The most profound sentence in the whole book is on the front page in which Nasar quotes Nash, a mathematical genius, explaining why he thought aliens from outer space were giving him secret messages. Nash responds, "....the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously." Read this book if you have the time. No rush. Helfen Sie anderen Kunden bei der Suche nach den hilfreichsten Rezensionen
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A Thrashing Mind,
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Rezension bezieht sich auf: A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994 (Gebundene Ausgabe)
Interesting book. However, the first word of the title is rather inappropriate. I don't see anything 'Beautiful' about Nash's mind nor his harrowing lifelong experiences. Most of his life was a state of crisis for those who worked with him or loved him. Nash, his family, and friends were, in fact, tragic victims of the power of the human mind when it malfunctions. The book is layed out such that the reader can see how people were able to cope and to grow from such a difficult tragedy. Alicia, his wife/ex-wife is a most fascinating individual. John Nash was a changed man after his recovery, with a much more grounded and rational personality than he ever had when he was at the height of his brilliance. The ending is bittersweet, and rather emoitional; the book certainly gets better the more that one reads into it. It certainly gave me a better understanding of grave mental illness and how that can alter one's intellect and destroy one's potential. What makes it more interesting is that the main characters are still alive and the story is not over yet. I wish Dr. Nash the best in his recovery.
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A Beutiful Book About A Singular Tragedy,
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Rezension bezieht sich auf: A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994 (Gebundene Ausgabe)
In the first few chapters of this book you learn to dislike John Nash. His arrogance and insensitivity are definitely not endearing traits. When schizophrenia captures his mind your first reaction is to think bad Karma has caught up with him. But as the pages and the years go buy you become deeply saddened by this man's loss. It is gratifying that Princeton and its academic staff stood by Nash, and kindly let him wander about the Math department for almost thirty years. His ex wife is an heroic individual who took care of him even though divorced from him. Another tragedy is Nash's mentally ill son who was granted a PhD from Rutgers and who has been unable to do anything with it in the 13 years since. You are, however, overjoyed at John Nash's mental resurrection in the 1990s. A well written book. Scientists reading this book should note that unlike many science biographies this is not a book heavy with mathematical theorems. It's about a life.I have one nitpicky complaint. The author spends a lot of time discussing the symptoms and treatment of schizophrenia. Yet when mental illness strikes other people in the book she uses trite, meaningless terms like "nervous breakdown" and "mental collapse". That's like referring to a physical ailment as "the vapors". Won't we ever bury such stupid terms? Helfen Sie anderen Kunden bei der Suche nach den hilfreichsten Rezensionen
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