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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.
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- National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, A Beautiful Mind (1998)
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.
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Genre. 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.
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Sylvia Nasar was born on August 17, 1947 in Rosenheim, Germany. She is known for A Beautiful Mind (2001), 1st Look (2011) and American Experience (1987).
Nov 27, 2023 · A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar is a captivating biography that chronicles the life and struggles of math prodigy and Nobel laureate, John Nash.
Sylvia Nasar, née le 17 août 1947, est une journaliste américaine. Elle est surtout connue pour sa biographie de John Forbes Nash Jr., Un bel esprit (A Beautiful Mind), qui lui a valu le Prix du Cercle National des critiques de livres. En 2021, elle est professeur émérite à l'École de journalisme de l'Université Columbia [1].
Manifold Destiny. "Manifold Destiny" is an article in The New Yorker written by Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber and published in the 28 August 2006 issue of the magazine. [1] It claims to give a detailed account (including interviews with many mathematicians) of some of the circumstances surrounding the proof of the Poincaré conjecture, one of ...