**Also an Academy Award-winning film starring Russell Crowe and
Jennifer Connelly--directed by Ron Howard**
The powerful, dramatic biography of math genius John Nash, who
overcame serious mental illness and schizophrenia to win the Nobel
Prize.
"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 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.