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Sylvia Nasar (born 17 August 1947) is an American journalist. She is best known for her biography of John Forbes Nash Jr., A Beautiful Mind, for which she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. Nasar is Knight Professor Emerita at Columbia University's School of Journalism.
Average rating: 4.13 · 134,964 ratings · 1,947 reviews · 21 distinct works • Similar authors. More books by Sylvia Nasar… Quotes by Sylvia Nasar (?) “I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logic or reasons can be found.” ― Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind. tags: inspirational.
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Sylvia Nasar has 21 books on Goodreads with 337491 ratings. Sylvia Nasar’s most popular book is A Beautiful Mind.
Written by journalism professor Sylvia Nasar, this book is an unauthorized biography of the award-winning mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. In 1994, he was one of three recipients who shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work with game theory.
Jun 12, 1998 · A Beautiful Mind (1998) is a biography of Nobel Prize-winning economist and mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. by Sylvia Nasar, professor of journalism at Columbia University. An unauthorized work, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1998 and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in biography. It inspired the 2001 film by the same ...
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Sylvia Nasar lay awake many nights in the mid-1990s worrying whether any anxiety caused by the biography she was writing about the Princeton mathematician John Nash would make him lapse back...
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The book A Beautiful Mind, published in 1998, is an unauthorized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning economist and mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. Written by Sylvia Nasar, professor of journalism at Colombia University, USA, the book generally receives very positive reviews and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography in 1998.
