A Beautiful Mind A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr. by Nasar, Sylvia - 1998

E-236: Simon & Schuster. Very Good. 1998. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1998. 461 pgs. Illustrated with black and white photos. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A Beautiful Mind traces the meteoric rise of John Forbes Nash, Jr. , from his lonely childhood in West Virginia to his student years at Princeton, where he encountered Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, and a host of other mathematical luminaries. At twenty-one, the handsome, ambitious, eccentric graduate student invented what would become the most influential theory of rational human behavior in modern social science. Nash's contribution to game theory would ultimately revolutionize the field of economics. As a young professor at… Read More

New York: Simon & Schuster. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0684819066 . Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. ; 9.3 X 6.3 X 1.4 inches; 464 pages .