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Sylvia Nasar (born 17 August 1947) is an American journalist. She is best known for her biographical book 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. [1]
She co-directed the M.A. program in business journalism. Professor Nasar is the author of the bestselling biography, "A Beautiful Mind," which has been published in 30 languages, including Farsi, Turkish, Russian and Hindi, and inspired the Academy Award-winning movie directed by Ron Howard (2001).
Sylvia Nasar. Writer: A Beautiful Mind. Sylvia Nasar was born on 17 August 1947 in Rosenheim, Germany. She is a writer, known for A Beautiful Mind (2001), 1st Look (2011) and American Experience (1987).
- August 17, 1947
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...
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- Research with Wassily Leontief
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Sylvia Nasar graduated with a B.A. in Literature from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio in 1970, and followed it with a Master’s degree in Economics from New York University in 1976.
For four years, Nasar researched with Russian-American economist Wassily Leontief (1905-1999). Leontief had been awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (“the Nobel Prize in Economics”) in 1973, and his doctoral student Paul Samuelson had received the same award three years earlier. Eventually, three more ...
In 1991-1999, Nasar worked as an economic correspondent for the New York Times. It was during this period that her book A Beautiful Mindwas published.
Since 2001, Nasar has been the John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Business Journalism at Columbia University. In March 2013, she filed a lawsuit accusing Columbia University of misdirecting $4.5 million in funds from the Knight endowment.
A Beautiful Mind
An unauthorized biography about the Nobel Prize-winning economist and mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, Simon & Schuster, 1998. ISBN 0-684-81906-6
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
A historical narrative used to promote Nasar’s view that economics rescued mankind from deprivation. The book gives a wonderful view of how economists often act all too human and overstate their cases and gamble their fortunes. How they metaphorically bet everything on red despite knowing better. How their human instinct overrides there better sense. I highly recommend this book. Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius, Simon & Schuster, Sept. 13, 2011. ISBN 978-0-684-87298-8 This article...
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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.
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Jun 8, 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...
