Bøger af Sylvia Nasar
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153,95 kr. A Beautiful Mind is Sylvia Nasar's award-winning biography about the mystery of the human mind, the triumph over incredible adversity, and the healing power of love.At the age of thirty-one, John Nash, mathematical genius, suffered a devastating breakdown and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Yet after decades of leading a ghost-like existence, he was to re-emerge to win a Nobel Prize and world acclaim. A Beautiful Mind has inspired the Oscar-winning film directed by Ron Howard and featuring Russell Crowe in the lead role of John Nash.
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228,95 kr. **Also an Academy Award?winning film starring Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly?directed by Ron Howard** The powerful, dramatic biography of math genius John Nash, who overcame serious mental illness and schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize.?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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