TITLE:
A beautiful mind / Sylvia Nasar.
Alternate Title:
Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr
By:
Publication Date:
1998
Publication Information:
New York, N.Y. : Simon & Schuster,
Physical Description:
459 p. : ill.
Subject Term:
Summary:
"A Beautiful Mind" traces the meteoric rise of John Forbes Nash, Jr., from his lonely childhood in West Virginia to his student years at Princeton, where he encountered Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, and a host of other mathematical luminaries. At twenty-one, the handsome, ambitious, eccentric graduate student invented what would become the most influential theory of rational human behavior in modern social science. Nash's contribution to game theory would ultimately revolutionize the field of economics.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780684819068
General Note:
A biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994.
