A Beautiful Mind (book)

A Beautiful Mind (1998) is an unauthorized biography of Nobel Prize-winning economist and mathematician John Nash by Sylvia Nasar, professor of journalism at Columbia University.

A Beautiful Mind
Front cover
AuthorSylvia Nasar
Original titleA Beautiful Mind: a Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectJohn Forbes Nash Jr.
GenreBiography
Published1998 (Simon & Schuster)
Media typePrint (Hardcover, paperback)
Pages460
ISBN0-684-81906-6
OCLC38377745
510/.92 B 21
LC ClassQA29.N25 N37 1998

It won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1998 and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in biography. The book was adapted into the film by the same name in 2001 directed by Ron Howard and starring Russell Crowe as Nash.

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