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	Review of "A beautiful mind" by Sylvia Nasar
		Nasar went to considerable lengths to find out what happened to Nash during this period; her discussion is sensitive and thought-provoking.
		Nasar also does a good job of exposing both the Econometric Society's handling of Nash's nomination to be a Fellow, and the machinations behind the award of his Nobel prize.
		Nasar seems to have gone to some lengths to double-check stories she was told, but inevitably sometimes her sample of sources is one-sided.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~osborne/misc/nasar.htm (2760 words)

	Columbia News ::: Author/Economist Sylvia Nasar Named to Knight Chair at Journalism School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Sylvia Nasar, journalist, economist and author of the award-winning A Beautiful Mind, has been named the first to hold the Knight Chair in Journalism, with an emphasis on business and economics reporting, at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, announced Tom Goldstein, dean of the School.
		In academic year 1995-1996 she was a Director's Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and last year she was a visiting scholar at Princeton University's Industrial Relations Division.
		Nasar has served as a judge for the National Book Awards as well as for the Overseas Press Club Journalism Awards, and in September she delivered the annual Rosalynn Carter Distinguished Lecture in Mental Health Journalism at Emory University.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/00/10/sylviaNasar.html (544 words)

	Royce Carlton - Sylvia Nasar A Beautiful Mind Economist
		Nasar’s biography won the National Book Critics’ Circle Award and was a Pulitzer finalist in 1998.
		Nasar’s book is a beautifully crafted exploration of the life and mind of John Nash, an intellectual giant in the generation that drove science and mathematics to the forefront of American consciousness.
		Nasar is the first Knight Professor of Business Journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and has been a visiting scholar at Cambridge University and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
	www.roycecarlton.com /speakers/nasar.html (491 words)

	Book review: A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar (Biography)
		The prologue to Sylvia Nasar's biography of Nobel Laureate John Nash, Jr., summarizes the mathematical marvel's life thus: genius, madness, reawakening.
		Nasar is clearly a fan of Nash's; she often excuses or glosses over his youthful bad behaviour, his capacious ego, his poor treatment of those he considers inferior (including his girlfriend Eleanor and their son John David Stier), and his obsessive competitiveness.
		Nasar speeds through the 1970s and 1980s, no doubt because they were uneventful for the “Phantom of Fine Hall.” This leaves the reader to wonder what Nash's official position was at Princeton (he tells a visitor he shouldn't go into the faculty club).
	www.slywy.com /bookreviews/johnnash.html (834 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: A Beautiful Mind: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Sylvia Nasar's aim has been to document Nash's life from his earliest childhood, and she does so with such a sense of time and place that the reader is immediately enthralled.
		The same is true of Nasar's approach to Schizophrenia; there are no real medical descriptions of the illness, but her depictions of life for the schizophrenic and those around them, has a depth and clarity that goes beyond any medical diagnosis.
		The volume of research, (easily assessed by a quick flick through the notes), Nasar invested in her book is truly impressive and the result is a biography that deserves the acclaim it has won.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0571212921 (1105 words)

	Powell's Books - A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
		In this dramatic and moving biography, Sylvia Nasar re-creates the life of a mathematical genius whose brilliant career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recovered and was honored with a Nobel Prize.
		Nasar recounts the bitter behind-the-scenes battle in Stockholm over whether to grant the ultimate honor in science to a man thought to be "mad." She describes Nash's current ambition to pursue new mathematical breakthroughs and his efforts to be a loving father to his adult sons.
		Sylvia Nasar is an economics correspondent for The New York Times.
	www.powells.com /biblio/4-0684819066-1 (733 words)

	Crescent Blues Book Views \| Sylvia Nasar: A Beautiful Mind
		Sylvia Nasar's fine biography of John Forbes Nash, A Beautiful Mind, seems dedicated to dispelling such notions.
		In addition, Nasar tempers her depiction of the schizophrenic Nash with descriptions of math and economic genius Nash, unwilling to raise bastard son Nash, distant from Alicia Larde (his girlfriend and sometime wife) Nash, anti-Semitic Nash as well as several other far from savory aspects of his personality.
		Never content to simply "leave it at that," however, Nasar however points out that those suffering from schizoid affect disorders distrust or disdain such emotional bonds and may be unable to form them.
	www.crescentblues.com /5_1issue/bk_nasar_beaut_mind.shtml (495 words)

	Columbia News ::: Sylvia Nasar Discusses Her Book, 'A Beautiful Mind;' Psychiatrist Roberto Gil: Schizophrenia and ...
		Sylvia Nasar's biography of John Nash, "A Beautiful Mind," has become a New York Times Best Seller.
		Nasar ought to know-she spent almost three years piecing together any information she could find about Nash.
		Her efforts were recognized when the book won the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and a contract with Universal Pictures and DreamWorks.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/02/01/beautiful_mind.html (1051 words)

	Amazon.com: A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash: Books: Sylvia Nasar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Nasar, an economics correspondent for the New York Times, is equally adept at probing the puzzle of schizophrenia and giving a nontechnical context for Nash's mathematical and scientific ideas.
		Sylvia Nasar does an excellent job of explaining why Dr. Nash was so different from his peers, and how he approached complex issues in fundamentally different manners than others.
		Perhaps Nasar intended the title to be sadly ironic, as John Nash's mind became deranged and his persona - as many readers have pointed out - was not a pretty sight.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743224574?v=glance (3160 words)

	Salon Books \| A Beautiful Mind
		For the next 30 years of his life, Nash -- or rather the ghost of Nash -- haunted the campuses where he had previously reigned as a genius, until he emerged from his delusions and accepted the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994.
		Nasar shows admirable restraint in presenting the seamier details of Nash's private life; she manages to stay focused on telling the story of a genius who became a schizophrenic, without overreaching and attempting explanations.
		Instead of facile theories, the reader enjoys wonder and astonishment -- frightened and intrigued by the intimate juxtaposition of genius and mental illness in a single beautiful mind.
	www.salon.com /books/sneaks/1998/06/29sneaks.html (439 words)

	Sylvia Nasar and Harold Kuhn, 21 March 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Sylvia Nasar and Harold Kuhn, 21 March 2001
		A legend by age thirty, recognized as a mathematical genius even as he slipped into madness, John Nash emerged after decades of ghostlike existence to win a Nobel and worldwide acclaim.
		Journalist Sylvia Nasar will tell the dramatic story of the West Virginia native whose 1950 doctoral dissertation at Princeton on game theory became a cornerstone of modern economics and whose ultimate triumph over schizophrenia has made him a symbol of hope around the world.
	www.haverford.edu /math/lbutler/nasar.html (298 words)

	Productivity, by Sylvia Nasar: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Sylvia Nasar holds the Knight Chair in Journalism at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
		The cuneiform inscription in the logo is the earliest-known written appearance of the word "freedom" (amagi), or "liberty." It is taken from a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.
		Photo: Detail of Sylvia Nasar from an interview, courtesy of Maximum Crowe.
	www.econlib.org /library/Enc/Productivity.html (2024 words)

	SLU News-Sylvia Nasar at Fanfare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		FANFARE GUEST -- Southeastern Louisiana University President Randy Moffett, right, visits with Sylvia Nasar, author of the prize-winning biography "A Beautiful Mind," before her Fanfare lecture at the Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts on Tuesday night.
		Nasar's biography inspired the Academy Award-winning film based on the life of economist John Forbes Nash Jr.
		Nasar was the special guest of Fanfare, Southeastern Louisiana University's annual arts festival.
	www.selu.edu /NewsEvents/PublicInfoOffice/nasar.html (120 words)

	BrothersJudd.com - Review of Sylvia Nasar's A Beautiful Mind : A biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the ...
		In what may be the most fascinating portion of the book, Ms Nasar details the absurd behind-the-scenes power struggles that went on in the Nobel committee, but in the end, of course, he did become a Nobel Laureate in 1994.
		Yet, as I read I couldn't help feeling that Ms Nasar had fallen prey to the aforementioned double standard in so far as her sympathy for Nash and her awe of his genius lead her to repeatedly excuse even behaviors that are not clearly related to his disease.
		In fact, she at least raises questions about whether Nash was ever clinically schizophrenic--though she cites many indicators that lead her, and would lead us, to believe he was, including the fact that one of his sons also developed the disease.
	www.brothersjudd.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/450 (2176 words)

	Doug Renselle's 2002 review of Sylvia Nasar's bio- biblio-graphical documentary of John Forbes Nash's life titled A ...
		There is a lot of redundancy (again, we think, necessary) because Nasar keeps reestablishing important nexuses among a vast array of important and relevant people who touched and were touched by John Forbes Nash's life.
		John Forbes Nash, as described by Sylvia Nasar in her book, A Beautiful Mind, and as shown in Ron Howard's movie of like title, appears to us as a quantum being.
		Above, under Nasar Problematics, we show how we intuited and inferred Einstein, et al., were naïve in their EPR, and now we know they were wholly wrong in their EPR Gedanken experiment intentions.
	www.quantonics.com /Review_A_Beautiful_Mind.html (6302 words)

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	JS Online: Sylvia Nasar 'Takes Five' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		And viewers could see for themselves what it was like to live inside the minds of someone with that disorder.
		Sylvia Nasar, who wrote the book that the movie was based on, will be the keynote speaker at the Pfister Hotel on Oct. 7 to celebrate the 120th anniversary of Aurora Psychiatric Hospital.
		It came from a quote by one of John Nash's greatest friends and fiercest professional rivals.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/books/sep04/262568.asp?format=print (463 words)

	MeAndMyReiews -- A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Nash eventually won the Nobel prize in economics for a piece of work on game theory he wrote at an earlier, more healthy, time.
		Throughout these periods, Nasar chronicles Nash's life superbly.
		She goes into great detail about the various aspects of Nash's life.
	www.uzer.org /reviews/bmind.html (1352 words)

	Beautiful Mind (Sylvia Nasar) - Reviews on RateItAll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		So if you liked the movie and want to know the real story, definitely read this book.
		Nasar appears to have had access to most of the important people in Nash's life, and the epilogue claims that Nash himself - while initially disturbed by the idea of someone writing his biography - found some kind of solace by reviewing the events of his life.
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	www.rateitall.com /i-24260-beautiful-mind-sylvia-nasar.aspx (171 words)

	NPR : Author Sylvia Nasar
		Fresh Air from WHYY, January 24, 2002 · Sylvia Nasar is the author of A Beautiful Mind, the biography of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash, who also suffered from schizophrenia.
		The book won a National Book Critics Circle Award, and inspired the movie of the same name.
		Nasar is a former economics correspondent for The New York Times.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1136856 (142 words)

	Blackstone Audiobooks - OverStock Sale - A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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		In this powerful and dramatic biography, Sylvia Nasar vividly re-creates the life of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recovered and was honored with a Nobel Prize.
		A Beautiful Mind traces the meteoric rise of John Forbes Nash, Jr., a prodigy and legend by the age of thirty, who dazzled the mathematical world by solving a series of deep problems deemed "impossible" by other mathematicians.
	www.blackstoneaudio.com /overstock.cfm?ID=2548 (206 words)

	Beautiful Mind, A : Sylvia Nasar
		Written by Sylvia Nasar - Performed by Anna Fields - Unabridged Fiction - 16 COMPACT DISCS - 18.25 hours (tracks every 3 minutes)
		A feat of biographical writing, A Beautiful Mind is also a fascinating look at the extraordinary and fragile nature of genius.
		About the Author: Syliva Nasar is an economics correspondent for The New York Times and lives in Tarrytown, NY.
	www.audiobooksonline.com /shopsite/0786195819.html (223 words)

	Princeton Univ. Press, S.: Celebrating 100 Years of Excellence, 1905-2005.
		In addition to featuring descriptions of the 100 titles, this book includes essays by Daniel Kevles on Einstein, Michael Wood on the impact of European refugee intellectuals, Anthony Grafton on history and politics, Lord Robert May on math and science, and Sylvia Nasar on economics.
		These essays, read in conjunction with the individual title entries, will allow readers to appreciate how the history of Princeton University Press reflects much of the richness of twentieth-century intellectual life.
		Economics at the Center of the Mathematical Universe - by Sylvia Nasar
	www.pup.princeton.edu /einstein/centgreeting.html (1815 words)

	About "Conversation about A Beautiful Mind, with Sylvia Nasar and Dave Bayer" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		About "Conversation about A Beautiful Mind, with Sylvia Nasar and Dave Bayer"
		A conversation with Sylvia Nasar (biographer of John Nash) and Dave Bayer (math consultant on A Beautiful Mind).
		Streaming audio of event sponsored by MSRI that took place May 2002.
	mathforum.org /library/view/60919.html (53 words)

	Sylvia Nasar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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	Sylvia Nasar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		One of the planet's funniest people is throwing a party, and everybody's invited.
		In a Crisis, It Was a Beautiful Job Los Angeles Times
		Author Sylvia Nasar and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman received the 14th annual Scripter Award on Saturday night.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /p/sylvia_nasar/news.php (804 words)

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