**Also an Academy Awardâwinning film starring Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connellyâdirected by Ron Howard**
The powerful, dramatic biography of math genius John Nash, who overcame serious mental illness and schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize.
âHow could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials were sending you messages?â the visitor from Harvard asked the West Virginian with the movie-star looks and Olympian manner. âBecause the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way my mathematical ideas did,â came the answer. âSo I took them seriously.â
Thus begins the true story of John Nash, the mathematical genius who was a legend by age thirty when he slipped into madness, and whoâthanks to the selflessness of a beautiful woman and the loyalty of the mathematics communityâemerged after decades of ghostlike existence to win a Nobel Prize for triggering the game theory revolution. The inspiration for an Academy Awardâwinning movie, Sylvia Nasarâs now-classic biography is a drama about the mystery of the human mind, triumph over adversity, and the healing power of love.