Sylvia Nasar

Sylvia Nasar (2005)

Sylvia Nasar (born August 17, 1947 in Rosenheim ) is a professor of journalism at Columbia University . She is the daughter of a German mother and an Uzbek father. Her family moved to the USA ( Washington, DC and New York ) in 1951 and to Turkey ( Ankara ) in 1960 . In 1965 her family returned to the United States. She studied economics in New York and Munich, among others .

In 1998 she published the biography of mathematician John F. Nash A Beautiful Mind with Simon & Schuster . In Germany, the book was published under the titles Auf die Fremd Meer des Denkens (Piper, 1999) and Genie und Wahnsinn. The life of the genius mathematician John Nash (Piper TB, 2002). The film adaptation of the book by Ron Howard in 2001 won four Academy Awards . As a co-author of an article in New Yorker Magazin (together with David Gruber), she made the controversy about the solution of the Poincaré conjecture by Grigori Perelman known to a wider public in 2006 .

Works

• A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics , Simon & Schuster 1998, ISBN 0-684-81906-6
  • dt .: On the foreign seas of thought. The life of the genius mathematician John Nash , Piper 1999 ISBN 978-3-492-03800-3 ; as TB: genius and madness. The life of the genius mathematician John Nash , Piper 2002 (Piper 3974 series), ISBN 978-3-492-23674-4
• Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius , Simon & Schuster 2011, ISBN 978-0-684-87298-8 ; eBook: ISBN 978-1-4391-9861-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Sylvia Nasar in the catalog of the German National Library
• Sylvia Nasar in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Interviews with Sylvia Nasar about her Nash biography and the film "A Beautiful Mind"
• Speech at MIT by Sylvia Nasar about the life of John Nash: "A Beautiful Mind: Genius, Madness, Reawakening"

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sylvia Nasar, David Gruber: The Poincaré Clash . August 28, 2006, ISSN  0028-792X ( newyorker.com [accessed March 11, 2019]).