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