num_pages: 461
description: "How could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials were sending you messages?" the visitor from Harvard asked the West Virginian with the movie-star looks and Olympian manner."Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way my mathematical ideas did," came the answer. "So I took them seriously."Thus begins the true story of John Nash, the mathematical genius who was a legend by age thirty when he slipped into madness, and who—thanks to the selflessness of a beautiful woman and the loyalty of the mathematics community—emerged after decades of ghost-like existence to win a Nobel Prize and world acclaim. 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.
language: English
title: A Beautiful Mind
titlecomplete: A Beautiful Mind
genres: Biography, Mental Health, Media Tie In, Science, Psychology, Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography Memoir, Mathematics, History
ratings_count: 131912
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Royal Society Science Book Prize
category: General Prize, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Biography or Autobiography, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Audie Award
category: Nonfiction, Abridged, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Biography/Autobiography
publisher: Touchstone