Новинки Сильвия Назар

Джон Неш завжди був зіркою. І, незважаючи на хворобу, люди захоплювалися його математичними здібностями. Він — знаменитий вчений, геній із психічними відхиленнями, людина, яка боролася, досягала небачених вершин і жила незвичайним життям. Історія Джона Неша — унікальна, надихаюча, вона вражає до сліз і водночас змушує усміхатися. Авторці вдалося склеїти тисячі шматків — із сотні інтерв’ю, листів, документів — у дивовижну розповідь про вченого, який зробив революцію у вивченні теорії ігор.
Захоплива історія життя, яка нікого не залишить байдужим, надзвичайно зворушлива книга, що змінила тисячі читачів!

Эту книгу российские читатели ждут давно. Биография нобелевского лауреата Джона Нэша, математика, чью творческую деятельность на 30 с лишним лет прерывала шизофрения, вышла в США в 1998 году, была номинирована на Пулитцеровскую премию и переведена на 30 языков, а ее экранизация получила четырех “Оскаров”. В книге научные достижения Нэша и его личная история описаны гораздо подробнее, чем в фильме, причем читателя ждет немало сюрпризов: жизнь, как всегда, куда сложнее кино.

Автор этой книги — американский журналист Сильвия Назар, написавшая прославленную биографию математика Джона Нэша, по которой был снят фильм “Игры разума”. “Великая цель” из названия книги — это процветание максимально возможного количества обитателей земного шара. “Путь к великой цели” начинается в середине XIX века, века королевы Виктории и ее всемогущей империи. Но уже очень скоро мир охватывает одна катастрофическая война, а за ней и другая. Правительства по всему миру — от коммунистических до самых что ни на есть капиталистических стран — играют все большую роль в экономической жизни. Экономические теории на глазах становятся повседневной практикой, а некогда кабинетные ученые — Джон Мейнард Кейнс, Ирвинг Фишер, Йозеф Шумпетер — отчаянно спорят между собой и заставляют политиков считаться со своим мнением. “Путь к великой цели” — захватывающая панорама политической и интеллектуальной жизни людей, стран и континентов, от викторианской Англии до современной Америки и Индии, от Карла Маркса и Чарльза Диккенса до Милтона Фридмана и Амартии Сена.

An instant New York Times bestseller, in a sweeping narrative the author of the esteemed A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through modern history with the men and women who changed the lives of every single person on the planet. Grand Pursuit is the epic story of the making of modern economics, of how economics rescued mankind from squalor and deprivation by placing its material fate in its own hands.

A New York Times bestseller, this sweeping narrative from the author of A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through modern history with the men and women who changed the lives of every single person on the planet. Grand Pursuit is the epic story of the making of modern economics, of how economics rescued mankind from squalor and deprivation by placing its material fate in its own hands.

Stories of famously eccentric Princetonians abound-such 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…

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Stories of famously eccentric Princetonians abound - such 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 up--only 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.
John Forbes Nash, Jr., a prodigy and legend by the age of 30, dazzled the mathematical world by solving a series of deep problems deemed "impossible" by other mathematicians. But at the height of his fame, Nash suffered a catastrophic mental breakdown and began a harrowing descent into insanity, resigning his post at MIT, slipping into a series of bizarre delusions, and eventually becoming a dreamy, ghostlike figure at Princeton, scrawling numerological messages on blackboards. He was all but forgotten by the outside world - until, remarkably, he emerged from his madness to win the Nobel Prize.
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). A Beautiful Mind is “a story about the mystery of the human mind, in three acts: genius, madness, reawakening.” A true drama, A Beautiful Mind is also a fascinating look at the extraordinary and fragile nature of genius.

In this powerful and dramatic biography Sylvia Nasar vividly re-creates the life of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recovered and was honored with a Nobel Prize. "A Beautiful Mind" traces the meteoric rise of John Forbes Nash, Jr., a prodigy and legend by the age of thirty, who dazzled the mathematical world by solving a series of deep problems deemed "impossible" by other mathematicians. But at the height of his fame, Nash suffered a catastrophic mental breakdown and began a harrowing descent into insanity, resigning his post at MIT, slipping into a series of bizarre delusions, and eventually becoming a dreamy, ghostlike figure at Princeton, scrawling numerological messages on blackboards. He was all but forgotten by the outside world -- until, remarkably, he emerged from his madness to win world acclaim. A feat of biographical writing, "A Beautiful Mind" is also a fascinating look at the extraordinary and fragile nature of genius.