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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.
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, published in 1998, was adapted into an Oscar-winning movie in 2001.
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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August 17, 1947. Website. http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/cs/ContentSe... Genre. Biographies & Memoirs, Science. edit data. 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.
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Aug 28, 2006 · By Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber. August 28, 2006. Grigory Perelman (right) says, "If the proof is correct, then no other recognition is needed." Shing-Tung Yau isn’t so sure. Pierre Le-Tan.
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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.
