A beautiful mind / Sylvia Nasar.

By:

Nasar, Sylvia

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Faber, 2001.Description: 461p., [8]p. of plates : ports. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780571212927 (pbk.) :
0571212921 (pbk.) :

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

920 NAS

LOC classification:

QA29

Awards:

National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography 1998

Summary: A Beautiful Mind is a combination of Fermat's Last Theorem and the recent film Shine. It tells the life story of an extraordinary mathematical genius - John Nash - who went mad, recovered, and won the Nobel Prize.

Holdings ( 1 )
Title notes ( 5 )

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Long Loan	TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection	920 NAS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		128588

Originally published: 1998.

Film tie-in.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-439) and index.

A Beautiful Mind is a combination of Fermat's Last Theorem and the recent film Shine. It tells the life story of an extraordinary mathematical genius - John Nash - who went mad, recovered, and won the Nobel Prize.

National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography 1998