A Beautiful Mind....

[fajrdrako]

I finished A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar today - a biography of the mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr., who suffered severe mental illness. An interesting book; I found the material about Nash's genius more interesting than the parts about his schizophrenia. Not that I'm not interested in schizophrenia, but Nasar didn't deal deeply with the disease or his mental processes. She seemed to wonder whether his condition really was paranoid schizophrenia, and I didn't understand her reasons for doubting it. If not that, what?

The section where Nash received the Nobel Prize was the only part where I really liked him.

I kept wondering what the movie is like, and how it compares to the book.

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[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I will certainly let you know when I've seen the movie. It's moved up on my 'prioty' ratings.

Interesting about the screenwriter - though if he did any of the Batman scripts, I am not necessarily impressed; I thought they were generally poor. (How much of that was the screenwriter's responsibility, of course, is unclear; and I am picky when it comes to interpretations of Batman.)