"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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