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A Beautiful Mind
A Beautiful Mind
Author: Sylvia Nasar
 ?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 begi...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9781451628425
ISBN-10: 1451628420
Publication Date: 7/12/2011
Pages: 464
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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I liked the movie and I like reading biographies, so this should have been a really good book for me. Unfortunately, I felt the need for a higher math education than I have to understand the first third of the book. Most of what's left is a detailed, play-by-play account of Nash's madness. The movie was very accessable, but the book is much more cerebral. The author used letters, diaries, and interviews to put together the facts, which are presented in a somewhat choppy method that does not draw one into the telling.

That said, I did read the entire book (minus the difficult parts that I skimmed) and did find his overall life interesting. I do not recommend this book to the casual reader.


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