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A beautiful mind
(Audiobook CD)
Author
Contributors
Fields, Anna, 1965-2006, narrator
Status
Audiobook - North Wing Basement
921 Nash
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921 Nash
1 available
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| Location | Call Number | Copy Number | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audiobook - North Wing Basement | 921 Nash | #1-2 | On Shelf |
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Format
Audiobook CD
Physical Desc
2 audio discs (18 hr., 30 min.) : digital, MP3-compressed ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
This audiobook is encoded in MP3 format and will only play on CD players that are MP3 compatible.
Participants/Performers
Anna Fields, reader.
Description
Stories of famously eccentric Princetonians aboundsuch as that of chemist Hubert Alyea, the model for The Absent-Minded Professor, or Ralph Nader, said to have had his own key to the library as an undergraduate. Or the "Phantom of Fine Hall," a figure many students had seen shuffling around the corridors of the math and physics building wearing purple sneakers and writing numerology treatises on the blackboards. The Phantom was John Nash, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of his generation, who had spiraled into schizophrenia in the 1950s. His most important work had been in game theory, which by the 1980s was underpinning a large part of economics. When the Nobel Prize committee began debating a prize for game theory, Nash's name inevitably came uponly to be dismissed, since the prize clearly could not go to a madman. But in 1994 Nash, in remission from schizophrenia, shared the Nobel Prize in economics for work done some 45 years previously. Economist and journalist Sylvia Nasar has written a biography of Nash that looks at all sides of his life. She gives an intelligent, understandable exposition of his mathematical ideas and a picture of schizophrenia that is evocative but decidedly unromantic. Her story of the machinations behind Nash's Nobel is fascinating and one of very few such accounts available in print (the CIA could learn a thing or two from the Nobel committees).
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Nasar, S., & Fields, A. (1999). A beautiful mind (Unabridged.). Blackstone Audiobooks.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Nasar, Sylvia and Anna Fields. 1999. A Beautiful Mind. Blackstone Audiobooks.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Nasar, Sylvia and Anna Fields. A Beautiful Mind Blackstone Audiobooks, 1999.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Nasar, Sylvia,, and Anna Fields. A Beautiful Mind Unabridged., Blackstone Audiobooks, 1999.
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