Una mente prodigiosa

sylvia nasar

En 1949 John Forbes Nash era un joven estudiante de matemáticas en Princeton, y con su tesis doctoral, dedicada al desarrollo de la teoría de juegos, ya dio buena muestra de su talento que impresionó a hombres de la talla de Albert Einstein, Rober Oppenheimer y John von Neumann.

Sylvia Nasar ha seguido paso a paso las peripecias de la tubulenta vida del gran genio y nos entrega una biografía que recoge lo mejor y lo peor de esta aventura apasionante por loscaminos de la genialidad, tan compleja e intrigante como un teorema con rostro humano.

Genres biographynonfictionpsychologysciencemathematicshistorybiography memoirmental healthmemoirmedia tie in

624 pages, Paperback

First published June 12,1998

Literary awards

royal society science book prize, pulitzer prize, audie award, national book critics circle award,

Places

princeton new jersey, princeton university new jersey,

This edition

Format: 624 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 2004 by Debolsillo
ISBN: 9788497934398
ASIN: 8497934393
Language: Spanish; Castilian

About the author

sylvia nasar

Sylvia Nasar was born to a German mother and Uzbek father. Her family immigrated to the United States in 1951, then moved to Ankara, Turkey in 1960. She graduated from Antioch College in 1970, and earned a masters' degree in economics at New York University in 1976. For four years, she did research with Nobel Laureate Wassily Leontief. She is currently the Knight Chair in Business Journalism at Columbia University. Her husband is economist Darryl McLeod. They have three children and live in Tarrytown, New York.