![]() ![]() ![]() "She is very much the hero of this book," Nasar said. She said Nash's story is "a drama about the mysteries of the human mind, but also very much a love story." She dedicated the book to Nash's wife, MIT physics graduate Alicia Larde (S.B. The first problem was getting anyone to acknowledge, even as late as 1994, that Nash even had schizophrenia.Īcting largely on a hunch, Nasar interviewed members of the Royal Swedish Academy and learned that Nash's Nobel Prize was almost voted down minutes before it was announced because some members of the Academy were afraid that Nash would "embarrass" the prize with his mental illness. Knight Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, was the speaker for the Applied Mathematics Colloquium Monday in Room 10-250.įrom that moment in the Times' newsroom, Nasar embarked on a remarkable journey that was as much about society's prejudices about mental illness as it was about a single man. In 2001, the book was made into an Academy Award-winning movie. Hundreds of interviews and a couple of years later, she expanded the story into Nash's unauthorized biography, "A Beautiful Mind," which was published in 1998. Nasar did write the story, which she said is like a fairy tale or a Greek myth, for The New York Times. ![]() ![]() "When I saw John Nash's name in an AP (Associated Press) story, I jumped up and ran over to my editor," she said. Sylvia Nasar was an economics reporter at The New York Times in 1994 when one-time MIT math professor John Nash was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics. ![]()
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