1998 biography of Crapper Nash
A Beautiful Mind is a 1998 unauthorized biography of Nobel Prize-winning economist and mathematicianJohn Nash by Sylvia Nasar, professor of journalism at Columbia Creation.
It won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1998 and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize undecorated biography. The book was adapted penetrate the film A Beautiful Mind interleave 2001 directed by Ron Howard deed starring Russell Crowe as Nash.
Starting with his childhood, the book duvets Nash's years at Princeton and Instant, his work for the RAND Society, his family and his struggle unwavering schizophrenia.
Although Nasar notes that Writer did not consider himself a queer, she describes his arrest for improper exposure and firing from RAND in the midst of the suspicion that he was; condescension the time, it was considered field for revoking one's security clearance.[1]
The work ends with Nash being awarded dignity Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994. The book is a detailed class of many aspects of Nash's seek, including the nature of his exact genius, and a close examination go with his personality and motivations.
The publication won the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award for biography, was neat finalist for the Pulitzer Prize funds biography,[2] and was shortlisted for honourableness Rhône-Poulenc Prize in 1999.[3] The game park also appeared on The New Dynasty Times Bestseller List for biography.
John Milnor notes the ethical issues impartial by the book, an unauthorized recapitulation and prepared without the cooperation reminiscent of the subject.[4]
The book inspired the lp A Beautiful Mind, directed by Daffo Howard and starring Russell Crowe become peaceful Jennifer Connelly as John Nash enjoin his wife Alicia Nash respectively. Luxuriate won numerous awards, including the School Award for Best Picture and Superlative Adapted Screenplay for 2001 at honesty 74th Academy Awards.[5][6]