Sylvia Nasar
First Simon & Schuster | 2011 | 464 páginas | epub | 1,3 Mb
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“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.
ContentsForeword
Prologue
Part One: A Beautiful Mind
1: Bluefield (1928–45)
2: Carnegie Institute of Technology (June 1945–1948)
3: The Center of the Universe (Princeton, Fall 1948)
4: School of Genius (Princeton, Fall 1948)
5: Genius (Princeton, 1948–49)
6: Games (Princeton, Spring 1949)
7: John von Neumann (Princeton, 1948–49)
8: The Theory of Games
9: The Bargaining Problem (Princeton, Spring 1949)
10: Nash’s Rival Idea (Princeton, 1949–50)
11: Lloyd (Princeton, 1950)
12: The War of Wits (RAND,Summer 1950)
13: Game Theory at RAND
14: The Draft (Princeton, 1950–51)
15: A Beautiful Theorem (Princeton, 1950–51)
16: MIT
17: Bad Boys
18: Experiments (RAND, Summer 1952)
19: Reds (Spring 1953)
20: Geometry
Part Two: Separate Lives
21: Singularity
22: A Special Friendship (Santa Monica, Summer 1952)
23: Eleanor
24: Jack
25: The Arrest (RAND, Summer 1954)
26: Alicia
27: The Courtship
28: Seattle (Summer 1956)
29: Death and Marriage (1956–57)
Part Three: A Slow Fire Burning
30: Olden Lane and Washington Square (1956–57)
31: The Bomb Factory
32: Secrets (Summer 1958)
33: Schemes (Fall 1958)
34: The Emperor of Antarctica
35: In the Eye of the Storm (Spring 1959)
36: Day Breaks in Bowditch Hall (McLean Hospital, April–May 1959)
37: Mad Hatter’s Teas (May–June 1959)
Part Four: The Lost Years
38: Citoyen du Monde (Paris and Geneva, 1959–60)
39: Absolute Zero (Princeton, 1960)
40: Tower of Silence (Trenton State Hospital, 1961)
41: An Interlude of Enforced Rationality (July 1961–April 1963)
42: The “Blowing-Up” Problem (Princeton and Carrier Clinic, 1963–65)
43: Solitude (Boston, 1965–67)
44: A Man All Alone in a Strange World (Roanoke, 1967–70)
45: Phantom of Fine Hall (Princeton, 1970s)
6: A Quiet Life (Princeton, 1970–90)
Part Five: The Most Worthy
47: Remission
48: The Prize
49: The Greatest Auction Ever (Washington, D.C., December 1994)
50: Reawakening (Princeton, 1995–97)
Epilogue
Notes
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
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