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A Beautiful Mind (1998) Signature. 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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- National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, A Beautiful Mind (1998)
Dewey Decimal. 510/.92 B 21. LC Class. QA29.N25 N37 1998. A Beautiful Mind (1998) is an unauthorized biography of Nobel Prize -winning economist and mathematician John Nash by Sylvia Nasar, professor of journalism at Columbia University . It won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1998 and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in biography.
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Sylvia Nasar was born to a German mother and Uzbek father. Her family immigrated to the United States in 1951, then moved to Ankara, Turkey in 1960. She graduated from Antioch College in 1970, and earned a masters' degree in economics at New York University in 1976. For four years, she did research with Nobel Laureate Wassily Leontief.
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In an excerpt from her new book, Sylvia Nasar recounts Nash’s poignant battle with his own mind, his miraculous recovery in the late 1980s, and the theories that led to his amazing triumph in ...
Trained as an economist, Professor Nasar was a New York Times economics correspondent (1991-1999), staff writer at Fortune (1983-1989) and columnist at U.S. News & World Report (1990). Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Newsweek, The New York Times Sunday Book Review, Fast Company, London Telegraph and numerous other publications. She ...
The 1999 book (biography) 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.
A Beautiful Mind ★★★½ 2001 (PG-13) Loose adaptation of Sylvia Nasar's 1998 bio of Nobel Prize winning mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr.An antisocial genius at Princeton University, Nash wrote his thesis on game theory at 21 and worked for the government in the 1950s before succumbing to paranoid schizophrenia, necessitating his confinement to a mental institution.
