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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.
Nov 15, 2018 · 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 (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.
- Sylvia Nasar
- 1998
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...
Jan 24, 2023 · 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.
The inspiration for a major motion picture, Sylvia Nasar's award-winning biography is a drama about the mystery of the human mind, triumph over incredible adversity, and the healing power of love.
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A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American film based on the life of John Forbes Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics. The film was directed by Ron Howard and written by Akiva Goldsman. It was inspired by a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1998 book of the same name by Sylvia Nasar.
