false 13912 26 Stories of famously eccentric Princetonians abound--such as that of chemist Hubert Alyea, the model for <i>The Absent-Minded Professor</i>, or Ralph Nader, said to have had his own key to the library as an undergraduate. Or the "Phantom of Fine Hall," a figure many students had seen shuffling around the corridors of the math and physics building wearing purple sneakers and writing numerology treatises on the blackboards. The Phantom was John Nash, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of his generation, who had spiraled into schizophrenia in the 1950s. His most important work had been in game theory, which by the 1980s was underpinning a large part of economics. When the Nobel Prize committee began debating a prize for game theory, Nash's name inevitably came up--only to be dismissed, since the prize clearly could not go to a madman. But in 1994 Nash, in remission from schizophrenia, shared the Nobel Prize in economics for work done some 45 years previously.<p>Economist and journalist Sylvia Nasar has written a biography of Nash that looks at all sides of his life. She gives an intelligent, understandable exposition of his mathematical ideas and a picture of schizophrenia that is evocative but decidedly unromantic. Her story of the machinations behind Nash's Nobel is fascinating and one of very few such accounts available in print (the CIA could learn a thing or two from the Nobel committees). This highly recommended book is indeed "a story about the mystery of the human mind, in three acts: genius, madness, reawakening." <I>--Mary Ellen Curtin</I> 2561274 book 1998 A Beautiful Mind total:2009|5:433|4:831|3:585|2:120|1:40| 2009 7524 3055 254 4 4 false false Sat Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Sat Jan 31 14:23:49 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 14:48:34 -0800 2009
But it is a fascinating and disturbing story. Nash lived (still is living, I guess) a really complicate...more...]]> 5 4 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 12 20:12:54 -0800 2008 Mon Apr 13 13:07:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Feb 17 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Sep 02 09:54:22 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 02 09:55:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Feb 16 10:48:31 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 16 10:48:31 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 05 18:52:32 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 05 20:56:51 -0700 2007
A Beautiful Mind, dikutip dari kisah nyata yang menceritakan perjalanan hidup seorang ahli matematika di sebuah ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Sep 10 23:28:25 -0700 2007 Sun Dec 09 17:10:26 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Mar 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Feb 09 05:18:40 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 15 22:35:19 -0700 2008
That being said, I did co...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Jan 01 20:16:36 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 01 20:40:06 -0800 2008
John Forbes Nash Jr., an extraordinary mathematician who get Nobel Prize in Economics (1994), was an odd guy, got himself far away...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 13:17:52 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 14:18:24 -0800 2009
John Nash is (for most of the book) an egotist who enjoys playing dangerous pranks on others, brags tha...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 18:08:10 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 18:30:12 -0700 2009
So I thought this book was quite good. Biographies are one of my favorite (probably second favorite) types of boo...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 18 06:48:01 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 07:19:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Mar 21 10:37:39 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 21 10:39:56 -0700 2008
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