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A Beautiful Mind

De: Sylvia Nasar
Narrado por: Anna Fields
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This is the powerful, dramatic biography of math genius John Nash, who overcame serious mental illness and schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize. This book is the inspiration for the Academy Award-winning film starring Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly and directed by Ron Howard.

“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 already 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.

©1998 Sylvia Nasar (P)1999 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ciencia Ciencia y Tecnología Historia Historia y Filosofía Matemáticas Profesionales e Investigadores Psicología Psicología y Salud Mental Salud Mental Imperialismo Guerra

Editorial review


By Mysia Haight, Audible Editor

A BEAUTIFUL MIND IS A REAL-LIFE LOOK AT GENIUS, MENTAL ILLNESS, AND LOVING A DIFFICULT PERSON

A Beautiful Mind, the book, explores the stigma attached to people who've struggled with mental illness. The accounts of Nash being hospitalized against his will and subjected, again and again, to a treatment he described as "torture"—insulin shock therapy, which provoked extremely violent, spontaneous seizures—are not easy reading. (Fortunately, his wife and colleagues said no to electroshock therapy for fear of numbing Nash's genius.) After his hard-fought recovery, Nash was nearly passed over for the Nobel Prize because of his history with schizophrenia. Could you give the highest of scientific honors to a man who had mental illness? Some committee members were dubious, believing that schizophrenia had transformed Nash into a different, and lesser, person. Taking us inside the secret deliberations at the Swedish Academy, Nasar reveals the controversy over recognizing Nash, with his fragile mental health, at age 66 for a theory he had conceived as an exceptionally mentally strong 21 year old. It was a fraught, contentious decision. Nash was not permitted to give an acceptance speech, contrary to the movie’s dramatic final scene. But Alicia was in Stockholm with him, supportive as always.

The true life story of John Forbes Nash Jr. is certainly stranger than the highly fictionalized screen version. Nash, unlike Russell Crowe's endearing portrayal, was a difficult man to like and deal with; he was often self-absorbed and sometimes callous. Then, there’s the mystery of how he overcame schizophrenia—purely on the strength of his mind. Nash stopped taking medication for his illness in 1970 and learned, he says, to discard his paranoid thoughts. To my mind, that's a feat as amazing as his coming up with game theory and other mathematical marvels I can't begin to wrap my brain around. Yet Sylvia Nasar celebrates John Nash for perhaps his most brilliant move—recognizing the extraordinary qualities of Alicia Larde. "It was Nash’s genius," she writes in A Beautiful Mind, "to choose a woman who would prove so essential to his survival."

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"A Beautiful Mind tells a moving story and offers a remarkable look into the arcane world of mathematics and the tragedy of madness." ( New York Times Book Review)
"Nasar tells a story of triumph, tragedy, and enduring love." ( Library Journal)

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That author spent a very long time on irrelevant topics, I very much doubt one has to know, say, the entire history of Princeton University to understand John Nash's story. Uses the word 'ostensibly' five times a chapter.

Very... Thorough

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The story is interesting, on both human and intellectual levels, but the production quality detracted from my enjoyment. The production was poorly cut and edited, and the text repeated...repeatedly! In fact, the repeated sections became so frequent, I began to think I might be losing my mind! Recommendation: read the book, watch the movie, or find a different audio version. The story is worth the effort.

Good story, bad production

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The book was written in a satisfying manner. The talk about John's work, personal life, and the environment he lived in, were well balanced.

Highly recommended

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I loved the way the author tells us the story, however the audio is not good, there are several parts where the audio repeat fragments of the book and after the second time keeps going with the next fragment. I screenshoted some of these mistakes in case someone wants to correct this.

Several parts repeated

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My usual books started as epic fantasies. As of the last year and a half I have been mixing in many spiritual books. I bought this book because it was on sale a few months back. Needless to say it didn’t really fit with my normal reads so I sat on it for over two months. Down to my final two unread books in my library, I decided to start reading.
The first couple of chapters take a little while building a portrait. They are slow but necessary. I don’t know when it happened but somewhere along the line I began enjoying it and found myself wanting to keep listening even though I had arrived at work.
I admit I have a bit of an obsessive personality but truly believe Nasar has put together a good story based upon the true life of a man that most would have looked at and thought a pompous mathematician. His story really is thought provoking and Nasar tries to give you as good an idea as possible to how important he was to mathematical research throughout much of the mid to late 20th century.

Not my normal read

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Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

Not really. It had too much about math for me.

If you’ve listened to books by Sylvia Nasar before, how does this one compare?

I don't think I have.

Have you listened to any of Anna Fields’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

I don't think I have.

Did A Beautiful Mind inspire you to do anything?

No.

Any additional comments?

It dwelled too much on the math involved and the theories. I enjoyed the portions about his life, per se, and his personality, and the basic accomplishments in the math/game theory field, but there was entirely too much, for me, about the math part so that I almost quit half-way through.

A Lot of math.

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I am grateful for the opportunity to learn more about the enigmatic lives of Dr. Nash and Alicia and Eleanor, both remarkable women. This was an amazing story that far surpasses in truth and in depth the engaging but more superficial account as told in the movie.
For all of my praise for this book, there was a somewhat annoying flaw in the audio production.
The narrator was excellent. The editing, however, was not excellent as evidenced by at least a dozen times when several sentences were repeated.

A masterpiece in research and storytelling

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This book details the relationships and accomplishments of a brilliant but deeply flawed and tragically fragile member of the elite of mathematics. He thrived in the uniquely tolerant world extreme math. But when math could not protect him from the “real” world, he became a

A Flawed Geneus

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I learned things about Nash that were very enlightening. Truly, he has a beutiful mind.

Eye Opening

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more than any of the other 300 books I have in my library, this book has spots where it repeats 15-30 second passages. irritating, but not a deal breaker

poorly edited

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