Sylvia Nasar Libros

En esta conmovedora biografía, Sylvia Nasar retrata la vida de un genio matemático cuya carrera fue interrumpida por la esquizofrenia. El relato sigue a John Nash Jr. desde su solitaria infancia en Virginia Occidental hasta su etapa universitaria en Princeton, donde conoció a figuras influyentes como Albert Einstein y John von Neumann. A la edad de veintiún años, desarrolló una teoría sobre el comportamiento humano racional, que tuvo un gran impacto en las ciencias sociales modernas. La contribución de Nash a la teoría de juegos revolucionó la economía. Sin embargo, a los treinta años, mientras se dirigía a convertirse en uno de los más grandes matemáticos, sufrió un colapso mental. Nasar describe su triste descenso a la locura, con años en clínicas y una vida reclusa en Princeton, apoyado por su esposa y un pequeño grupo de amigos. A los sesenta y tres años, Nash experimentó una notable recuperación, lo que llevó a la concesión del Premio Nobel, tras prolongadas discusiones sobre la idoneidad de un 'loco' para este prestigioso reconocimiento.

**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.

Edited by Sylvia Nasar, bestselling author of A Beautiful Mind and former economics correspondent for the New York Times , The Best American Science Writing 2008 brings together the premiere science writing of the year. Distinguished by the foremost voices and publications—among them Pulitzer Prize-winner Amy Harmon, Nobel Prize–winner Al Gore, and award-winning and bestselling author Oliver Sacks—this anthology is a comprehensive overview of our most advanced and most relevant scientific inquiries.

From the bestselling author of A Beautiful Mind, a brilliant new approach to the story of modern economics and to understanding how we got into today's financial mess. As the twenty-first century faces new and ever more daunting economic obstacles, Sylvia Nasar tells the story of how our financial world came to function as it does today, and how a handful of men and women would change the lives of every person on the planet. Economics was not always associated with bankers and excess, or with recessions and bailouts. Economics, as we know it, was born in the nineteenth century when Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew chronicled the destitution in London's slums and wanted to turn money into a force for social good. Man's material fate would be placed in his own hands, rather than left to destiny. The torch would be carried on by everyone from Marx and Engels to Keynes and Friedman, with revolutionary results. Filled with the stories of colourful lives and visions of the characters who shaped modern economics, Grand Pursuit is a fascinating history of the determining force of the past century, and a vital insight into how our world works now. 'A history of economics which is full of flesh, bloom and warmth' The Economist

**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.

Sylvia Nasars Buch ist die dramatische Biographie des genialen Mathematikers John Nash, der an paranoider Schizophrenie erkrankte, wahnsinnig wurde und nach seiner Heilung 1994 den Nobelpreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften erhielt. Eine aufwühlende Geschichte von einem Genie und dessen Sieg über eine schreckliche Krankheit.

L’any 1994 el matemàtic nord-americà John Forbes Nash va ser guardonat amb el premi Nobel d’economia per l’Acadèmia sueca. La notícia no tindria més transcendència de la normal si no fos que aquest geni de les matemàtiques, en el punt més àlgid de la seva