Front cover | |
Author | Sylvia Nasar |
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Original title | A Beautiful Mind: a Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994 |
Language | English |
Subject | John Forbes Nash Jr. |
Genre | Biography |
Published | 1998 (Simon & Schuster) |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (Hardcover, paperback) |
Pages | 460 |
ISBN | 0-684-81906-6 |
OCLC | 38377745 |
510/.92 B 21 | |
LC Class | QA29.N25 N37 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. The book was adapted into the film by the same name in 2001 directed by Ron Howard and starring Russell Crowe as Nash.