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John Forbes Nash: brilliant, tortured, complex. Sylvia Nasar rendered his story with perspective and grace in A Beautiful Mind, her biography of the mathemat...
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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.
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Aug 9, 2016 · Subscribed. 54. 4.5K views 7 years ago. Sylvia Nasar, the established author and journalist talks about her book, “A Beautiful Mind.”. She talks about the quickly diminishing standards that...
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Author Sylvia Nasar appears at the 2011 National Book Festival.Speaker Biography: From the author of "A Beautiful Mind" comes Sylvia Nasar's newest nonfictio...
Jun 12, 1998 · 4.13. 132,812 ratings1,712 reviews. Stories of famously eccentric Princetonians abound—such as that of chemist Hubert Alyea, the model for The Absent-Minded Professor, or Ralph Nader, said to have had his own key to the library as an undergraduate.
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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.
Feb 8, 2011 · A Beautiful Mind. Sylvia Nasar. Simon and Schuster, Feb 8, 2011 - Biography & Autobiography - 464 pages. **Also an Academy Award–winning film starring Russell Crowe and Jennifer...