A Beautiful Mind....
Dec. 8th, 2003 11:43 pmI 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.