A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John NashSimon and Schuster, 2001 M12 4 - 461 páginas In this biography, Sylvia Nasar re-creates the life of a mathematical genius whose brilliant career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recovered and was honored with a Nobel Prize. A Beautiful Mind traces the meteoric rise of John Forbes Nash, Jr., from his lonely childhood in West Virginia to his student years at Princeton, where he encountered Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, and a host of other mathematical luminaries. At twenty-one, the handsome, ambitious, eccentric graduate student invented what would become the most influential theory of rational human behavior in modern social science. Nash's contribution to game theory would ultimately revolutionize the field of economics. At thirty, Nash was poised to take his dreamed-of place in the pantheon of history's greatest mathematicians. Then Nash suffered a catastrophic mental breakdown Nasar details Nash's harrowing descent into insanity - his bizarre delusions that he was the Prince of Peace; his resignation from MIT, flight to Europe, and attempt to renounce his American citizenship; his repeated hospitalizations, from the storied McLean, where he came to know the poet Robert Lowell, to the crowded wards of a state hospital; his "enforced interludes of rationality" during which he was able to return briefly to mathematical research. At age sixty-six, twin miracles - a spontaneous remission of his illness and the sudden decision of the Nobel Prize committee to honor his contributions to game theory - restored the world to him. Nasar recounts the bitter behind-the-scenes battle in Stockholm over whether to grant the ultimate honor in science to a man thought to be "mad." She describes Nash's current ambition to pursue new mathematical breakthroughs and his efforts to be a loving father to his adult sons. |
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Prologue | 11 |
A Beautiful Mind | 23 |
Bluefydd 192845 25 | 40 |
The Center of the Universe Princeton Fall 1948 | 49 |
School oi Genius Princeton Fall 1948 | 58 |
Genius Princeton 194849 | 66 |
Games Princeton Spring 1949 | 75 |
John von Neumann Princeton 194849 | 79 |
Seattle Summer 1956 | 203 |
Death and Marriage 195657 | 208 |
A Slow Fire Burning | 213 |
Olden Lane and Washington Square 195657 | 215 |
The Bomb Factory | 222 |
Secrets Summer 1958 | 228 |
Schemes Fall 1958 | 235 |
The Emperor of Antarctica | 239 |
The Theory of Games | 83 |
The Bargaining Problem Princeton Spring 1949 | 88 |
Nashs Rival Idea Princeton 194950 | 92 |
Lloyd Princeton 1950 | 99 |
The War of Wits RAND Summer 1950 | 104 |
Game Theory at RAND | 115 |
The Draft Princeton 195051 | 123 |
A Beautiful Theorem Princeton 195051 | 128 |
MIT | 133 |
Bad Boys | 139 |
Experiments RAND Summer 1952 | 147 |
Reds Spring 1953 | 152 |
Geometry | 155 |
Separate Lives | 165 |
Singularity | 167 |
A Special Friendship Santa Monica Summer 1952 | 169 |
Eleanor | 172 |
Jack | 180 |
The Arrest RAND Summer 1954 | 184 |
Alicia | 190 |
The Courtship | 199 |
In the Eye of the Storm Spring 1959 | 248 |
Day Breaks in Bowditch Hall McLean Hospital AprilMay 1959 | 253 |
Mad Hatters Tea MayJune 1959 | 262 |
The Lost Years | 267 |
Citoyen du Monde Paris and Geneva 195960 | 269 |
Absolute Zero Princeton 1960 | 283 |
Tower of Silence Trenton State Hospital 1961 | 288 |
An Interlude of Enforced Rationality July 1961April 1963 | 295 |
The Blowing Up Problem Princeton and Carrier Clinic 196565 | 305 |
Solitude Boston 196567 | 314 |
A Man All Alone in a Strange World Roanoke 196770 | 323 |
Phantom of Fine Hall Princeton 1970s | 332 |
A Quiet Life Princeton 197090 | 340 |
The Most Worthy | 347 |
Remission | 349 |
The Prize | 356 |
The Greatest Auction Ever Washington D C December 1994 | 374 |
Reawakening Princeton 199597 | 379 |
Epilogue | 389 |
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