A Beautiful Mind : a Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Nasar, Sylvia
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, [1998]
Subjects:	Nash, John F., > Jr., > 1928-2015. Nash, John F., > 1928- Nash, John F., > 1928-2015. Mathematicians > United States > Biography. Mathématiciens > États-Unis > Biographies. Mathematicians. United States. Economen. Wiskundigen. Speltheorie. Nobelprijzen. Schizofrenie. Biografie. Biographies. Biography.
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Table of Contents:

Part 1. A beautiful mind
1. Bluefield (1928-45)
2. Carnegie Institute of Technology (June 1945-June 1948)
3. The center of the universe (Princeton, Fall 1948)
4. School of genius (Princeton, Fall 1948)
5. Genius (Princeton, 1948-49)
6. Games (Princeton, Spring 1949)
7. John von Neumann (Princeton, 1948-49)
8. The theory of games
9. The bargaining problem (Princeton, Spring 1949)
10. Nash's rival idea (Princeton, 1949-50)
11. Lloyd (Princeton, 1950)
12. The war of wits (RAND, Summer 1950)
13. Game theory at RAND
14. The draft (Princeton, 1950-51)
15. A beautiful theorem (Princeton, 1950-51)
16. MIT
17. Bad boys
18. Experiments (RAND, Summer 1952)
19. Reds (Spring 1953)
20. Geometry
Part 2. Separate lives
21. Singularity
22. A special friendship (Santa Monica, Summer 1952)
23. Eleanor
24. Jack
25. The arrest (RAND, Summer 1954)
26. Alicia
27. The courtship
28. Seattle (Summer 1956)
29. Death and marriage (1956-57)
Part 3. A slow fire burning
30. Olden lane and Washington square (1956-57)
31. The bomb factory
32. Secrets (Summer 1958)
33. Schemes (Fall 1958)
34. The emperor of Antarctica
35. In the eye of the storm (Spring 1959)
36. Day breaks in Bowditch Hall (McLean Hospital, April-May 1959)
37. Mad Hatter's Tea (May-June 1959)
Part 4. The lost years
38. Citoyen du Monde (Paris and Geneva, 1959-60)
39. Absolute zero (Princeton, 1960)
40. Tower of silence (Trenton State Hospital, 1961)
41. An interlude of enforced rationality (July 1961-April 1963)
42. The "blowing up" problem (Princeton and Carrier Clinic, 1963-65)
43. Solitude (Boston, 1965-67)
44. A man all alone in a strange world (Roanoke, 1967-70)
45. Phantom of Fine Hall (Princeton, 1970s)
46. A quiet life (Princeton, 1970-90)
Part 5. The most worthy
47. Remission
48. The prize
49. The greatest auction ever (Washington, D.C., December 1994)
50. Reawakening (Princeton, 1995-97)
Epilogue.