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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.
Sylvia Nasar is a business journalist and author of "A Beautiful Mind", a biography of mathematician John Nash. She taught at Columbia Journalism School and received many awards and honors for her work.
Nov 15, 2018 · Learn about the life and achievements of John Forbes Nash Jr, a Nobel Prize-winning mathematician who struggled with schizophrenia. The book by Sylvia Nasar, a journalist and author, was adapted into an Oscar-winning movie starring Russell Crowe.
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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.
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Jun 12, 1998 · Economist and journalist Sylvia Nasar has written a biography of Nash that looks at all sides of his life. She gives an intelligent, understandable exposition of his mathematical ideas and a picture of schizophrenia that is evocative but decidedly unromantic.
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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 into...
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Aug 9, 2016 · Sylvia Nasar, the established author and journalist talks about her book, “A Beautiful Mind.” She talks about the quickly diminishing standards that journal...
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