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Noble Laureate, Genius Mathematician John Nash is no longer with us. He is killed in a car accident along with his wife.
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This is the story of John Forbes Nash, Jr. It is a story about the mystery of the human mind, in three acts:
1. GENIUS: Perhaps John Nash was the greatest mathematical genius ever born in his times. He grew up as a child who lacked social skills (which his parents feared the most), days he locked himself up in dark room ...more
Noble Laureate, Genius Mathematician John Nash is no longer with us. He is killed in a car accident along with his wife.
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This is the story of John Forbes Nash, Jr. It is a story about the mystery of the human mind, in three acts:
1. GENIUS: Perhaps John Nash was the greatest mathematical genius ever born in his times. He grew up as a child who lacked social skills (which his parents feared the most), days he locked himself up in dark room ...more
Apart from a few narrative glitches and unnecessary details, thus is one of the most satisfying biographies. Heartbreaking stuff :) Take a bow, Dr. Nash
Movie was too narrow and concentrated on just a few details of Nash's life. I should've liked a better movie, although it's still a brilliant movie :) ...more
Movie was too narrow and concentrated on just a few details of Nash's life. I should've liked a better movie, although it's still a brilliant movie :) ...more
A rollercoaster ride on the ebbs and peaks , the brilliant achievements and the abysmal disasters , of a hyperactive swinging mind ! !
Wonderfully crafted account , balancing out the mathematical and personal aspects of Nash's life . If till he touched 30 , to the outer world Nash was nothing but a precocious genius , the contrast in his later life could not have been starker ; as Sylvia describes him , for most of his later life he was nothing more than a "phantom " doing the rounds of the Princ ...more
Wonderfully crafted account , balancing out the mathematical and personal aspects of Nash's life . If till he touched 30 , to the outer world Nash was nothing but a precocious genius , the contrast in his later life could not have been starker ; as Sylvia describes him , for most of his later life he was nothing more than a "phantom " doing the rounds of the Princ ...more
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