A film tie-in edition of the prize-winning biography of an extraordinary mathematical genius.
At twenty-one, John Nash was a brilliant and highly eccentric mathematician at Princeton University when he invented game theorythe most influential theory of rational human behaviour of our time. At thirty-one, at the peak of a brilliant career, Nash was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Beset by bizarre delusions and repeatedly incarcerated in mental hospitals, Nash spent most of the next three decades as a silent, ghost-like figure haunting the Princeton campus. At sixty he was all but forgotten, when twin miraclesan almost unprecedented remission of schizophrenia and a decision by the Nobel Prize Committee to honour his great achievementrestored the world to him. This amazing story has now been turned into a major film, starring Russell Crowe.
'Two paragraphs and I was hooked! deeply interesting and extraordinarily moving.'
Oliver Sacks
