Grand Pursuit

Biographies & Memoirs

Sylvia Nasar

Professionals & Academics

Fourth Estate

A beautiful mind: A biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994

Faber&Faber

A Beautiful Mind

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

"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 ghostlike existence to win a Nobel Prize for triggering the game theory revolution. The inspiration for an Academy Award-winning movie, Sylvia Nasar's now-classic biography is a drama about the mystery of the human mind, triumph over adversity, and the healing power of love.

Simon & Schuster Audio

Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius

Simon&Schuster

Grand Pursuit: Great 20th Century Economic Thinkers and What They Discovered about the Way the World Works

<p>Sylvia Nasar, the author of the phenomenal bestseller A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through the epic story of the making of modern economics, and how it rescued mankind from squalor and deprivation by placing its material fate in its own hands, rather than in Fate. Nasar's account begins with Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew observing and publishing the condition of the poor majority in mid 19th century London, the richest and most glittering place in the world. This was a new pursuit. She then describes the efforts of Marx, Engels, Alfred Marshall, Beatrice and Sydney Webb, and Irving Fisher to put those insights into action - with revolutionary consequences for the world. From the great John Maynard Keynes to Schumpeter, Hayek, Keynes's disciple Joan Robinson, the influential American economists Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman, and India's Nobel Prize Winner Amartya Sen, she show how the insights of these activist thinkers transformed the world - from one city, London, to the developed nations in Europe and America and now the entire world. In Nasar's dramatic account of these discoverers we witness men and women responding to personal crises, world wars, revolutions, economic upheavals, and each others' ideas to turn back Malthus and transform the dismal science into a triumph over mankind's hitherto age-old destiny of misery and early death. This story, unimaginable less than 200 years ago, is a story of trial and error, and ultimately transcendent, rendered here in stunning narrative.</p>

A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash = = Byutifuru maindo [Japanese Edition]

Uma Mente Brilhante é o relato da conturbada trajetória de John Forbes Nash Jr., Prêmio Nobel de Economia de 1994, que no auge do seu sucesso, aos 31 anos, vê sua genialidade corroída por surtos persecutórios, provenientes de uma esquizofrenia paranóica. Neste livro, Sylvia Nasar reconstitui a luta deste gênio dos números para recobrar sua sanidade. Uma Mente Brilhante tem sido extremamente bem recebido pela crítica; foi premiada com o National Book Critics Circle Award e foi finalista do prestigiado prémio Pulitzer. Contudo, também tem recebido duras críticas por parte de alguns especialistas em teoria dos jogos, que acusam Nasar de alguns erros e incompreensões nas explicações que dá da teoria dos jogos. E de facto assim é: se for leigo na matéria a leitura deste livro não irá alterar o facto. Mas continua a ser uma leitura fascinante com contrapartidas valiosas. O retrato da vida académica durante o florescimento cultural dos EUA é maravilhoso. E John Nash é uma figura tão intrigante que vale a pena conhecê-lo.

Uma Mente Brilhante

Record

Il Genio Dei Numeri / A Beautiful Mind

Rizzoli

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