by Sylvia Nasar · Comunicación Y Publicaciones · tapa dura · ISBN 9788493467425
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«Una mente prodigiosa» is the biography of mathematician John Forbes Nash by Sylvia Nasar, published by Comunicación y Publicaciones in hardback (671 pages).
The work follows the life of John Nash, from his brilliant beginnings in mathematics and his equilibrium system in markets —which challenged Adam Smith's theories— to the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics. It also reconstructs the long period in which he lived with schizophrenia, diagnosed in 1958, and his slow recovery.
It is the Spanish translation of A Beautiful Mind, done by Ricard Martínez i Muntada; it is part of the Cine para leer collection (no. 7) and includes a bibliography.
For readers interested in biographies, mathematics, history of science and mental health, and in the figure of Nobel Prize in Economics winner John Nash.
Sylvia Nasar is an American journalist. She is best known for her biographical book of John Forbes Nash Jr., A Beautiful Mind, for which she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. Nasar is Knight Professor Emerita at Columbia University's School of Journalism.
