“sylvia nasar”

"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 by mathematical ideas did," came the ... More

In a masterful blend of biography and science writing, Nasar traces John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s rise to the heights of intellectual achievement and his harrowing descent from "eccentricity" to insanity. Released as a major motion picture directed by Ron Howard and starring Russell Crowe and Ed Harris.Ho... More

The dramatic story of John Forbes Nash, Jr., a mathematical genius who slipped into madness at the height of his career, endured three decades of schizophrenia, and, after a miraculous recovery, was awarded the Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work. of photos. Index.In this powerful and dramatic b... More

Edited by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and award-winning author, this is the ninth edition of the popular annual series dedicated to collecting the most crucial, thought-provoking, and engaging science writing of the year.Edited by Sylvia Nasar, bestselling author of "A Beautiful Mind" and former eco... More

i The Community Mental Health Reader /i is an interdisciplinary resource for students preparing to become mental health professionals, those functioning as practitioners in community mental health settings or policy planners engaged in the evaluation and development of programs in the human services... More

A film tie-in edition of the prize-winning biography of an extraordinary mathematical genius.At twenty-one, John Nash was a brilliant and highly eccentric mathematician at Princeton University when he invented game theory—the most influential theory of rational human behaviour of our time. At ... More

"John Nash's creative work in game theory has of course had the most profound influence on both its mathematics and its practical applications in economics. It is very good to see his work in this area joined with his other mathematical contributions in a single volume, to give a more rounded perspe... More

"The Community Mental Health Reader" is an interdisciplinary resource for students preparing to become mental health professionals, those functioning as practitioners in community mental health settings or policy planners engaged in the evaluation and development of programs in the human services. D... More