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 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 and world acclaim. The inspiration for a major motion picture, Sylvia Nasar's award-winning biography is a drama about the mystery of the human mind, triumph over incredible adversity, and the healing power of love.,Relates how mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, Jr., suffered a breakdown at age thirty-one and was diagnosed with schizophrenia, but experienced a remission of his illness thirty years later.
【目录】
Prologue
Part One:A Beautiful Mind
1 Bluefield(1928—45)
2 Carnegie Institute of Technology(June 1945一June 1948)
3 The Center ofthe Universe(Princeton,Fall 1948)
4 School of Genius (Princcton,Fall 1948)
5 Genius(Princeton,1948—49)
6 Games fPrinceton,Spring 1949)
7 John von Neumann(Princeton.1948-49)
8 The Theory of Games
9 The Bargaining Problem (Princeton,Spring 1 949)
10 Nash’S Rival Idea(Princeton.1949-50)
11 Lloyd fPrinccton,1950)
12 The Wlar of Wits(RAND,Summer 1950)
13 Game Theory at RAND
14 The Draft(Princeton,1950-51)
15 A Beautiful Theorem(Princeton,1950-51)
16 MIT
17 Bad Boys
18 Experiments(RAND,Summer 1952)
19 Reds(Spring 1953)
20 Geometry
Part Two:Separate Lives
21 Singularity
22 A Special Friendship(Santa Monica,Summer 1952)
23 Eleanor
24 Jack
25 The Arrest(RAND,Summer,1954)
26 Alicia
27 The Courtship
28 Seattle(Summer 1956)
29 Death and Marriage fl 956-57)
Part Three:A Slow Fire Burning
30 Olden Lane and Washington Square(1 956-57)
31 The Bomb Factory
32 Secrets(Summer 1958)
33 Schemes fFali 1958)
34 The Emperor of Antarctica
35 In the Eye ofthe Storm(Spring 1959)
36 Day Breaks in Bowditch Hall
(McLean Hospital April-May 1959)
37 Mad Hatter's Tea(May-June 1959)
Part Four:The Lost Years
38 Citoyen du Monde fPansandGeneva,1959-60)
39 AbsoluteZero(Princeton.1960)
40 Tower of Silence(Trenton State Hospital 1961)
41 An Interlude of Enforced Rationality (July 1961-April 1963)
42 The“Blowing Up”Problem
(Princeton and Carrier Clinic,1963—65)
43 Solitude(Boston,1965-67)
44 A Man All Alone in a Strange World(Roanoke,1967--70)
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