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A beautiful mind : a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994 / Sylvia Nasar.
| Author/creator | Nasar, Sylvia |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st Touchstone ed. |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 1999. |
| Description | 459 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 1. Bluefield -- 2. Carnegie Institute of Technology -- 3. The center of the universe -- 4. School of genius -- 5. Genius -- 6. Games -- 7. John von Neumann -- 8. The theory of games -- 9. The bargaining problem -- 10. Nash's rival idea -- 11. Lloyd -- 12. The war of wits -- 13. Game theory at RAND -- 14. The draft -- 15. A beautiful theorem -- 16. MIT -- 17. Bad boys -- 18. Experiments -- 19. Reds - 20. Geometry -- 21. Singularity -- 22. A special friendship -- 23. Eleanor -- 24. Jack -- 25. The arrest -- 26. Alicia -- 27. The courtship -- 28. Seattle -- 29. Death and marriage -- 30. Olden Land and Washington Square -- 31. The bomb factory -- 32. Secrets -- 33. Schemes -- 34. The Emperor of Antarctica -- 35. In the eye of the storm -- 36. Day breaks in Bowditch Hall -- 37. Mad Hatter's tea -- 38. Citoyen du Monde -- 39. Absolute zero -- 40. Tower of silence -- 41. An interlude of enforced rationality -- 42. The 'blowing up" problem -- 43. Solitude -- 44. A man all alone in a strange world -- 45. Phantom of Fine Hall -- 46. A quiet life -- 47. Remission-- 48. The prize -- 49. The greatest auction ever -- 50. Reawakening. |
| Local note | Little-318072--3051310187691 |
| General note | "A Touchstone book." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-437) and index. |
| ISBN | 0684853701 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780684853703 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780684819068 |
| ISBN | 0684819066 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | QA29.N25 N37 1999 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |