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    Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography and the inspiration for an Academy Award-winning movie, A Beautiful Mindis a true story of genius and madness, recovery and redemption, determination and love.

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    Written by accomplished journalist Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind is a biography of John Forbes Nash Jr., the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician who laid the foundations of game theory at age 21 and battled paranoid schizophrenia for 30 years.

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    A Beautiful Mind

    The book (biography) A Beautiful Mind

    Written by journalism professor Sylvia Nasar, this book is an unauthorized biography of the award-winning mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. In , he was one of three recipients who shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work with game theory.

    Published in , this biography became a major success and entered the New York Times Bestseller List&#; for biographies. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award for a biography, and was also one of three final nominees for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.

    The movie A Beautiful Mind, directed by Ron Howard and starring Russell Crowe as John Nash, was inspired by the biography.

    Short facts about the book A Beautiful Mind

    Full titleA Beautiful Mind: a Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics,
    AuthorSylvia Nasar
    LanguageEnglish
    Published bySimon & Shuster, in
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    biography of John Nash

    A Beautiful Mind is a unauthorized biography of Nobel Prize-winning economist and mathematicianJohn Nash by Sylvia Nasar, professor of journalism at Columbia University.

    It won the National Book Critics Circle Award in and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in biography. The book was adapted into the film A Beautiful Mind in directed by Ron Howard and starring Russell Crowe as Nash.

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    Starting with his childhood, the book covers Nash's years at Princeton and MIT, his work for the RAND Corporation, his family and his struggle with schizophrenia.

    Although Nasar notes that Nash did not consider himself a homosexual, she describes his arrest for indecent exposure and firing from RAND amid the suspicion that he was; at the time, it was considered grounds for revoking one's security clearance.[1]

    The book ends with Nash being awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in The book is a detailed description