What the what?

Thursday. Service manager out all week. 

I have three books going and of course I started a different one. A BEAUTIFUL MIND by Sylvia Nasar. Nonfiction.

John Nash, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of his generation, who had spiraled into schizophrenia in the 1950s. His most important work had been in game theory, which by the 1980s was underpinning a large part of economics. When the Nobel Prize committee began debating a prize for game theory, Nash's name inevitably came up—only to be dismissed, since the prize clearly could not go to a madman. But in 1994 Nash, in remission from schizophrenia, shared the Nobel Prize in economics for work done some 45 years previously. Economist and journalist Sylvia Nasar has written a biography of Nash that looks at all sides of his life. She gives an intelligent, understandable exposition of his mathematical ideas and a picture of schizophrenia that is evocative but decidedly unromantic. Her story of the machinations behind Nash's Nobel is fascinating and one of very few such accounts available in print (the CIA could learn a thing or two from the Nobel committees).

Published 1998; 461 pages. I'd been wanting to read it for years, obviously since the movie came out, but it never took. Now is apparently time to try again. 

I have sprints tonight. Reading and crocheting.

Have a good day

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster