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Sylvia Nasar is the author of A Beautiful Mind which inspired the academy award winning movie and was translated into 30 languages. She was an economics correspondent for the New York Times and is the John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Business Journalism at Columbia University. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair ...
Sylvia Nasar is a German-born American economist and author, best known for her biography of John Forbes Nash, A Beautiful Mind (1998). She is also the author of Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius (2011). For four years, she did research with Nobel Laureate Wassily Leontief.
Jul 12, 2011 · A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Novel Laureate John Nash - Kindle edition by Nasar, Sylvia. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Novel Laureate John Nash.
Apr 11, 2002 · Now Sylvia Nasar, my guest today has been a writer at Fortune magazine, a columnist at U.S. News and World Report, and, from 1991 to 1999 a reporter at The New York Times.
Jul 12, 2011 · Paperback : 464 pages. ISBN-10 : 1451628420. ISBN-13 : 978-1451628425. Item Weight : 1 pounds. Dimensions : 6.13 x 1.2 x 9.25 inches. Best Sellers Rank: #85,424 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books) #20 in Schizophrenia (Books) #25 in Game Theory (Books) #228 in Scientist Biographies.
- Sylvia Nasar
Thus begins the true story of John Nash, the mathematical genius who was a legend by age thirty when he slipped into madness, and who—thanks to the selflessness of a beautiful woman and the loyalty of the mathematics community—emerged after decades of ghostlike existence to win a Nobel Prize for triggering the game theory revolution.
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.
