A Beautiful Mind
by Sylvia Nasar · first published 1998
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Relates how mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, Jr., suffered a breakdown at age thirty-one and was diagnosed with schizophrenia, but experienced a remission of his illness thirty years later.
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…Turing deals a lot with history and is a read of a lifetime. ____ - I have not read A Mind at Work yet. It is a biography of Claude Shanon. I would recommend you to check it out. - Sylvia Nasar's A Beautiful Mind is also recommended highly. I plan to read it. ____ I have recently watched a BBC Documentary that I thoroughly liked. One of its themes that had striken me was the change of science from fully deterministic…
on “Ask HN: Any recommendation for a good History of Science book?” ↗'A Beautiful Mind' is a fantastic movie, but, as you implied, it's fundamentally a different story. The book is where it's at: http://www.amazon.com/A-Beautiful-Mind-Sylvia-Nasar/dp/14516... I will also say that it's…
on “The world's hardest CAPTCHA” ↗…indeed is a psychiatrist. I am privileged to know Irving Gottesman,[2] one of the world authorities on schizophrenia research (he was the consultant credited by the author of the John Nash biography A Beautiful Mind). He used to be one of the few researchers on the topic who thought that there were genetic influences on schizophrenia, which is now established medical knowledge. In the bad old days of Freudianism,…
on “What Killed My Sister? ” ↗I got to know both John Nash and Silvia Nasar, through working as the math consultant for the film "A Beautiful Mind". I had about a day's notice to meet with Ron Howard, Akiva Goldsman, and Todd Hallowell for my interview, and I somehow managed to read the book in that interval. This excerpt is wonderful and shorter.
on “A Beautiful Mind (1998)” ↗Nash said "the same way", not the "the same voice": “the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously.” - Sylvia Nasar, "A Beautiful Mind"
on “Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history” ↗…Lee Iacocca’s book, Who Moved my Cheese, Seven Habits of Highly Successful People, Jack Welch’s book, etc were commonly sold, in addition to the latest novels. I even remember buying Sylvia Nasar’s A Beautiful Mind (was popular because of the movie then) from a roadside vendor.
on “Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder, Dies at 94” ↗