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John Nash: A Beautiful Genius
John Nash-Beautiful Genius
Trinity Home Ent, 2002
When John Forbes Nash Jr. first arrived at Princeton as a graduate student in 1949 he was amongst some of the most brilliant minds the world had ever seen. Today he is one of the most fascinating minds of our time.Follow the journey of an extraordinary man from his explosive entrance into the competitive world of mathematics through his thirty year struggle with paranoid schizophrenia. The ...
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A Beautiful Mind: The Shooting Script 3 reviews
Newmarket Press, 2002
Goldsman's Work
+ A Beautiful Mind - Shooting Script
+ My Heart is Still Bleeding
I tend to admire the work that goes into forging a screen adaptation from a book. In this case Goldsman has created a truly compelling script which, as we all know, won the academy award. Worth reading? (in addition to seeing the movie?) Yes. Because you will see so much more. The movie is the ...
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Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics 7 reviews
John von Neumann
Princeton University Press, 1996
Hilbert Space Formulation of QM
+ .. and try to read everything else JvN wrote, too!
+ Has Strengths and Weaknesses
+ a classic
+ Very nice historical approach
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John Von Neumann 3 reviews
Norman Macrae
Pantheon, 1992
A Touching Masterpiece for all Scholars and even any Concerned Readers
+ An important book about one of the century's major minds.
As a prodigious reader of biographies--of all sorts, but mostly those of persons of science and mathematics (probably read about a hundred)--I feel qualified to say that this biography of John von Neumann is one of the greatest written biographies available today. While the previous reviewers are ...
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The Computer and the Brain: Second Edition (Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lectures)6 reviews
John von Neumann
Yale University Press, 2000
The un-digital brain.
+ Computer Science
+ Dated, but always worth reading von Neumann
+ Clear, maybe even clairvoyant view of the brain.
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A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash283 reviews
Sylvia Nasar
Touchstone, 2001
Accurate, well-written and readable
+ Reads like a novel
+ An Opinion of "A Beautiful Mind" from a fellow schizophrenic
+ A Beautiful Mind
+ A mad genius
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Ideas and Opinions43 reviews
Albert Einstein
Bonanza Books, 1988
fascinating
+ wonderful reading
+ The hobo Philosopher
+ Something to read before you live this world
+ Another Side of Einstein
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Modeling And Computations in Dynamical Systems: In Commeration Of The 100th Anniversary Of The Birth Of John ...
et al Eusebius J. Doedel (Editor)
World Scientific Publishing Company, 2006
The Hungarian born mathematical genius, John von Neumann, was undoubtedly one of the greatest and most influential scientific minds of the 20th century. Von Neumann made fundamental contributions to Computing and he had a keen interest in Dynamical Systems, specifically Hydrodynamic Turbulence. This book, offering a state-of-the-art collection of papers in computational dynamical systems, is ...
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American Experience: A Brilliant Madness8 reviews
Liev Schreiber, Alicia Nash
PBS Home Video, 2002
Authentic and Accessible
+ A tale of triumph in two extraordinary ways
+ A tribute to human spirit, endurance, and goodwill
+ See this one instead.
+ Fuller picture
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Einstein's Miraculous Year: Five Papers That Changed the Face of Physics10 reviews
Albert Einstein
Princeton University Press, 2005
E = mc˛
+ Special Relativity Doesn't Work(written by Jim Spinosa)
+ A Treasure
+ The Heart of the Matter
+ Einstein's Masterful Synthesis
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John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death
Steve Joshua Heims
The MIT Press, 1982
. John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener were mathematician-scientists, both child prodigies born near the turn of the century. As young men each made profound contributions to abstract mathematics.
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The Essential John Nash13 reviews
John Nash
Princeton University Press, 2001
A Most Welcome Mathematical Banquet
+ Undiluted math
+ An essential reading !
+ Good Collection of Nash Writings!
+ excellent
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John Von Neumann: The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, ...7 reviews
Norman MacRae
Amer Mathematical Society, 2000
Links mathematics, internetworking, humanity & productivity
+ John Von Neumann
+ A good biography of a true genius
+ Interesting but scientifically shallow
+ The worldly secrets of John von Neumann
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A Celebration of John F. Nash Jr. (Duke Mathematical Journal, Vol 81)
Harold W. Kuhn
Duke University Press, 1996
This collection celebrates the pathbreaking work in game theory and mathematics of John F. Nash Jr., winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics. Nash’s analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games has had a major impact on modern enconomic theory. This book, also published as volume 81 of the Duke Mathematical Journal, includes an important, but previously unpublished ...
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The Neumann Compendium (World Scientific Series in 20th Century Mathematics, Vol 1)
John Von Neumann, F. Brody
World Scientific Publishing Company, 1995
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Albert Einstein, the human side: New glimpses from his archives2 reviews
Albert Einstein
Princeton University Press, 1981
Einstein the mensch
+ Einstein, the Human side
Einstein's longtime secretary (1928-1955) Helen Dukas and Professor Banesh Hoffman who together had written a biography of Einstein here collect some of his correspondance, his very humane replies on a great variety of subjects.
The work is small but it does reveal Einstein's character. His humor ...
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The Meaning of Relativity, Fifth Edition: Including the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field ...8 reviews
Albert Einstein
Princeton University Press, 2004
Will never collect dust....
+ A dense, but brilliant, collection of lectures
+ A Classic Collection
+ The Meaning of Relativity by Albert Einstein
+ Einstein goes deeper.
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Albert Einstein, The Human Side2 reviews
Albert Einstein
Princeton University Press, 1981
Einstein the mensch
+ Einstein, the Human side
Einstein's longtime secretary (1928-1955) Helen Dukas and Professor Banesh Hoffman who together had written a biography of Einstein here collect some of his correspondance, his very humane replies on a great variety of subjects.
The work is small but it does reveal Einstein's character. His humor ...
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A Beautiful Math: John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern Quest for a Code of Nature 8 reviews
Tom Siegfried
Joseph Henry Press, 2006
I think I get it know
+ A Beautiful Math is a Beautiful Book
I first picked up this book because I thought it would be more of a biography of John Nash. The book is more a discussion of how game theory can be used to help understand nature.
The book was very readable and even gave me a historic perspective about where this trend is going. Although there ...
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Essays on Game Theory
John F. Nash
Edward Elgar Publishing, 1997
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