A Beautiful Mind - Sylvia Nasar - 2009



By: Sylvia Nasar
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 18 hrs and 12 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 03-26-09
Language: English
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Professionals & Academics
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Format: mp3 64/48 mono



National Book Critics Circle Award, Biography/Autobiography, 1999

John Forbes Nash, Jr., a prodigy and legend by the age of 30, dazzled the mathematical world by solving a series of deep problems deemed "impossible" by other mathematicians.

But at the height of his fame, Nash suffered a catastrophic mental breakdown and began a harrowing descent into insanity, resigning his post at MIT, slipping into a series of bizarre delusions, and eventually becoming a dreamy, ghostlike figure at Princeton, scrawling numerological messages on blackboards. He was all but forgotten by the outside world - until, remarkably, he emerged from his madness to win the Nobel Prize.

A true drama, A Beautiful Mind is also a fascinating look at the extraordinary and fragile nature of genius.

©1998 Sylvia Nasar (P)1999 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Critic Reviews

"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)





24/7 Seedbox Support