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Author Nasar, Sylvia.

Title A beautiful mind : the life of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash / Sylvia Nasar.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2001.
©1998

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Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. NASH, J.    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  B NASH, JOHN    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  B NASH    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  B NASH    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  B NASH c.3  Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  BIOGRAPHY NASH c.3  Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B NASH, JOHN    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO NASH    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B NASH, JOHN    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Jefferson Branch - Non Fiction  92 NASH, JOH    Check Shelf

Edition Touchstone edition.
Description 461 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note "A Touchstone book."
Subtitle of 1998 edition: A biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [437]-439) and index.
Contents pt. 1. A beautiful mind -- pt. 2. Separate lives -- pt. 3. A slow fire burning -- pt. 4. The lost years -- pt. 5. The most worthy.
Summary The true story of John Nash, the math genius who was a legend by age thirty when he slipped into madness; through the selflessness of a beautiful woman and the loyalty of the mathematics community he emerged after decades of ghostlike existence to win a Nobel Prize; now a major motion picture--Cover.
Subject Nash, John F., Jr., 1928-2015
Mathematicians -- United States -- Biography.
Mathematicians -- Biography.
Nobel Prize winners -- Biography.
Mental illness -- United States -- Biography.
Mentally ill -- United States -- Biography.
Schizophrenia -- United States -- Biography.
Schizophrenics -- United States -- Biography.
Schizophrenia -- Case studies.
Genius and mental illness -- Case studies.
Genius -- United States -- Biography.
Added Title Life of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
Other Title Beautiful mind : a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994
Note Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994
ISBN 0743224574 paperback
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