- Schizophrenics, Schizofrenie, Mathématiciens, Mentally ill
Relates how mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, Jr., suffered a breakdown at age thirty-one and was diagnosed with schizophrenia, but experienced a remission of his illness thirty years later.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and spare.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Sylvia Nasar
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 480
- Publisher
- Brand: Simon n Schuster Audio, Piper, Altin Kitaplar
- Editions
- 35
- Language
- German, Japanese, tur, Italian
- ISBN
- 9783492236744
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“AMONG JOHN NASH'S EARLIEST MEMORIES is one in which, as a child of about two or three, he is listening to his maternal grandmother play the piano in the front parlor of the old Tazewell Street house, high on a breezy hill overlooking the city of Bluefield, West Virginia.”
Sylvia Nasar is an Uzbek German-born American journalist. She is best known for her biography of John Forbes Nash Jr., *A Beautiful Mind*, for which she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. [*--Wikipedia*](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Nasar) *Photo Attribution:* Knight Foundation, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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