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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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3.5 stars, based on 1 rating
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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miss-info avatar reviewed A Beautiful Mind on + 386 more book reviews
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.
miss-info avatar reviewed A Beautiful Mind on + 386 more book reviews
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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Much more in depth than the movie. It does spend more time on his childhood, how he influenced the field of mathematics, and his decent into schizophrenia. Well researched, but a bit dry. It may be a great book to read if you are interested in a good biography or mathematics and/or economics.
miss-info avatar reviewed A Beautiful Mind on + 386 more book reviews
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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A good book but needs lots of concentration to read. Lots of math descriptions as are appropriate for a story about a math genius.
miss-info avatar reviewed A Beautiful Mind on + 386 more book reviews
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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Interesting; basis of the movie.
reviewed A Beautiful Mind on + 9 more book reviews
The story of a man from West Virginia who was a mathemetical genius who slipped into a state of madness. It took a beautiful woman and a community who believed in him to bring him back into reality. He went on to win a Nobel Prize and world acclaim.


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