A Beautiful Mind

Amit Saha said An account unlike the movie. I had watched the movie for the first time years back. I watched it recently, and upon impulse bough the book. I am glad I read the book. Usually, I used to think a movie can make you really feel because it's visual. This book changed that. "A Beautiful Mind" is a story of the tragedy that human life can become and like most things tragic, the silver lining usually exists.It is also the story about how after all, no matter how brilliant and intellectually superior we are, we are after all human. We make mistakes, we are unsure of what we want, we are afraid of being a failure, we crave for recognition and we love win. Ron Penn said The book that inspired the movie. The book that inspired the movie. This is a biographical account of mathematician John Nash. If you enjoyed the movie you will like this book more as it contains a great deal more information that was not shown in the movie due to time constraints. Dr Nash was a very interesting fellow to say the least.. DGB said A worthwhile read. I appreciated this book for the depth of historical perspective it offered about mathematics, John Nash's struggle with schizophrenia, and the politics involved in the Nobel prizes. Yet at the same time, that density of information made this a difficult book to read, more academic than pleasurable. For anyone who wants a well researched, well referenced and erudite approach, this is the book for you.

A Beautiful Mind is "a story about the mystery of the human mind, in three acts: genius, madness, reawakening." A true drama, it is also a fascinating glimpse into the fragility of genius.. He was all but forgotten by the outside world--until, remarkably, he emerged from his madness to win the Nobel Prize. John Forbes Nash, Jr., a prodigy and legend by the age of thirty, dazzled the mathematical world by solving a series of deep problems deemed "impossible" by other mathematicians. But at the height of his fame, Nash suffered a catastrophic mental breakdown and began a harrowing descent into insanity, resigning his post at MIT, slipping into a series of bizarre delusions, and eventually becoming a dreamy, ghostlike figure at Princeton, scrawling numerological messages on blackb

Her story of the machinations behind Nash's Nobel is fascinating and one of very few such accounts available in print (the CIA could learn a thing or two from the Nobel committees). This highly recommended book is indeed "a story about the mystery of the human mind, in three acts: genius, madness, reawakening." --Mary Ellen Curtin. The Phantom was John Nash, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of his generation, who had spiraled into schizophrenia in the 1950s. When the Nobel Prize committee began debating a prize for game theory, Nash's name inevitably came up--only to be dismissed, since the prize clearly could not go to a madman. She gives an intelligent, understandable exposition of his