A Beautiful Mind

Sylvia Nasar

Price: Rp 150.000, - *
Size: 15 x 23 cm
Thickness: 625 pages
Published: July 2005


Reviews:
Book winner National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 1998, and Pulitzer Prize finalist

John Forbes Nash, Jr.. is a mathematics genius United States most prominent among friends segenerasinya. At the age of twenty-one years he was a postgraduate student a brilliant, stubborn, frustrating, and very eksentrik at Princeton University when he found some of the principles of mathematics, which is now called the Nash equilibrium-which is very important for game theory or the same theory.

At the age of thirty-one years old, when are at the peak of his career and brilliant not long after married a young beautiful fisikawan, Nash suffered a sudden mental breakdown and the damage later diagnosed suffering from schizophrenia. Terpaan under the delusion that strain-delusion, and not make the wall, and repeatedly have to crouch behind a wall nuthouse, Nash is forced to spend the next three decades as a taciturn figure who only occasionally appears in the ghost vessel Princeton University campus environment.

When he reached sixty years, the health worsened, and the practical existence is forgotten, suddenly two miracles happen-the first is the healing that is almost not be suspected of schizophrenia, while the second is the Nobel Prize Committee decision to appreciate the achievements in the period gemilangnya past. Two miracles that restore the world to him.

"Just two paragraphs, but I stuck! A Beautiful Mind is very interesting, very move, especially when telling stories about the life story of Nash and achievement-achievement, as well as insight simpatiknya attention when discussing kegeniusan and schizophrenia."
-Oliver Sacks

"Sylvia nasal Nash tells about life in Princeton during the fiery intellectual passion, about the brilliant contributions to the theory of games, and, most importantly, he mcmberikan discussion that touches on the period and sympathetic figure when the storm drowned swallowed schizophrenia."
-Sunday Telegraph