A Beautiful Mind

Name: A Beautiful Mind
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Sylvia Nasar
ISBN: 9781433295829

Author: Sylvia Nasar

Narrator: Anna Fields

Unabridged: 18 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 03/18/2009

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography

Synopsis

John Forbes Nash, Jr., a prodigy and legend by the age of thirty, 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 delusions, and eventually becoming a dreamy, ghostlike figure at Princeton, scrawling numerological messages on blackboards. He was all but forgotten by the outside worlduntil, remarkably, he emerged from his madness to win the Nobel Prize. A true drama, A Beautiful Mind is also a fascinating look at the extraordinary and fragile nature of genius.

About Sylvia Nasar

Sylvia Nasar is the author of the bestselling A Beautiful Mind, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography. She is the John S. and James. L Knight Professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Hirdesh on May 04, 2021

Highly recommended book. I loved the movie, I've seen. Then, I had found it is based on a true event. Great story. How a great scientist flows with his intellects wrapped in complex mind. Epic dialogues and theme. I'm thankful to read the book and watched the movie.......more

Goodreads review by Chad on October 11, 2023

At first glance, a biography of a mathematician would seem to make for a read dryer than the Sahara. However, John Nash is no ordinary mathematician and Sylvia Nasar is no ordinary biographer. In her capable hands, the life of John Nash comes to life…in all of its brilliant, dark, pessimistic, extra......more

Goodreads review by Melania 🍒 on October 28, 2020

3.25|5 (Some Mild Spoilers Ahead) What I struggled most with in this book was young Nash’s personality. Half of the book I could only think about what a humongous piece of sh!t Nash was. I know he has his illness, but we don’t know for sure how/ if that influenced his personality as a youngster. The w......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on September 20, 2024

A sad examination of a highly flawed man with a brilliant mind and a difficult life due to his illness (at least I think it’s fair to say a lot of it was due to illness). I remember watching the movie many years ago and being moved. The book filled in a lot of gaps in details for me. Story was well......more

Goodreads review by Eric_W on April 13, 2009

"'How could you,' Mackey asked, 'how could you, a mathematician, a man devoted to reason and logical proof. . . how could you believe that extra terrestrials are sending you messages? How could you believe that you are being recruited by aliens from outer space to save the world? How could you . . .......more