"Award for biography, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for biography, and was shortlisted for the Rhône-Poulenc Prize in 1999. The book also appeared on the ""New York Times Bestseller List"" for biography. The book inspired the film ""A Beautiful Mind"", directed by Ron Howard and starring Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly. It won numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay for 2001 at the 74th Academy Awards. A Beautiful Mind (book) A Beautiful Mind (1998) is a biography of Nobel Prize-winning economist and mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. by Sylvia Nasar, professor"
"A Beautiful Mind (film) A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American biographical drama film based on the life of John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics. The film was directed by Ron Howard, from a screenplay written by Akiva Goldsman. It was inspired by a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1998 book of the same name by Sylvia Nasar. The film stars Russell Crowe, along with Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg, Judd Hirsch, Josh Lucas, Anthony Rapp, and Christopher Plummer in supporting roles. The story begins in Nash's days as a graduate student at Princeton University. Early in the"
"a tinge of religious fervor."" The script of Ron Howard's 2001 film ""A Beautiful Mind"", loosely based on Sylvia Nasar's 1998 biography of the mathematician John Nash, sparked her interest in the project. Connelly was invited to an audition after her agent Risa Shapiro sent the producers a tape with a clip of the yet unreleased ""Requiem for a Dream"". She was cast by the film's producer, Brian Grazer, as Alicia Nash, the caring and enduring wife of the brilliant, schizophrenic mathematician, played by Russell Crowe. Howard and the producers eventually chose them after being particularly impressed by their screen"
"film ""A Beautiful Mind"", the biopic of John Nash, and also had a cameo as one of the ""Pen Ceremony"" professors. Dave Bayer David Allen Bayer (born November 29, 1955) is an American mathematician known for his contributions in algebra and symbolic computation and for his consulting work in the movie industry. He is a professor of mathematics at Barnard College, Columbia University. Bayer was educated at Swarthmore College as an undergraduate, where he attended a course on combinatorial algorithms given by Herbert Wilf. During that semester, Bayer related several original ideas to Wilf on the subject. These contributions were"
"A Beautiful Mind (soundtrack) A Beautiful Mind is the original soundtrack album, on the Decca Records label, of the 2001 film ""A Beautiful Mind"" starring Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly (who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as ""Alicia Nash""), Christopher Plummer and Paul Bettany. The original score and songs were composed and conducted by James Horner. The album garnered nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and the Academy Award for Best Original Score. Music critics felt that the musical score fit the film well, but believed it to be similar to"
"Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition). The film was also nominated for Movie of the Year, Actor of the Year (Russell Crowe), and Screenwriter of the Year (Akiva Goldsman). ""A Beautiful Mind"" was released on VHS and DVD in the United States on June 25, 2002. The DVD set includes audio commentaries, deleted scenes and documentaries. The film was also released on Blu-ray in North America on January 25, 2011. A Beautiful Mind (film) A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American biographical drama film based on the life of John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics. The film was directed by"
"I think, gives a sense of--the center of this character, if you will. I think it's the soul. And it's trying to be normal in a way, and underneath it it's trying to be crazy."" Horner's score garnered nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and the Academy Award for Best Original Score. It lost the Golden Globe to the film ""Moulin Rouge!"" and the Oscar to """". Adapted from: A Beautiful Mind (soundtrack) A Beautiful Mind is the original soundtrack album, on the Decca Records label, of the 2001 film ""A Beautiful Mind"" starring Russell Crowe,"
"(c.1490). Walter's struggle with his mental health gave him a unique perspective and can be seen as an inextricable part of his creativity and invention. For this reason, comparisons have been made between Frank Walter and mathematician John Nash, who was featured in the 1998 novel A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar and the 2001 film of the same name directed by Ron Howard Walter's practice has been linked to a diverse group of artists, including Adolf Wölfli (1864–1930), Alfred Wallis (1855–1942), Forrest Bess (1911–1977), and Henry Darger (1892–1973). These artists—whose art is often categorized as “outsider art”—lived a reclusive"
"was trying hard to have her sent to a mental care facility again. She said that she would ""rather die or go to prison than go to a mental hospital."" Ruth Seegrist said she had seen ""A Beautiful Mind"", a 2001 biographical drama film about John Nash, a Princeton math professor and Nobel laureate who also was schizophrenic. ""I thought it was very well done,"" Seegrist said. ""When a person is so delusional – at first he thought it all was real, but it really was in his mind."" Ruth Seegrist said ""I really believe she belongs in the forensic"
"a mental calculation contest. In the 1997 sci-fi thriller ""Cube"", one of the prisoners, Kazan, appears to be mentally disabled but is revealed later in the film to be an autistic savant, who is able to calculate prime factors in his head. In 1998 Darren Aronofsky's film ""Pi"", Maximillian Cohen is asked a few times by a young child with a calculator to do large multiplications and divisions in his head, to which he promptly answers. In 1998 film ""Mercury Rising"", a 9-year-old autistic savant with prodigious math abilities cracks a top secret government code. In the 2006 film ""Stranger"
"for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for ""Proof"", but lost to Felicity Huffman. Since 1993 (when Andrew Wiles first claimed to have proven Fermat's Last Theorem), there have been several feature films about mathematicians, notably ""Good Will Hunting"" (1997), ""A Beautiful Mind"" (2001), ""Proof"" (2005), ""Travelling Salesman"" (2012), ""The Imitation Game"" (2014), and ""Gifted"" (2017). In 2006, mathematician Daniel Ullman wrote: ""Of [the first] three films, ""Proof"" is the one that most realistically illustrates the world of mathematics and mathematicians."" Ullman praised the director too: ""Madden should be credited with capturing the feeling of the mathematical world."" He also"
"Bloomsday celebration. The mansion cost the group $1.2 million to acquire, and it was estimated that fully restoring it would take another $2 million. Throughout the 2000s Tara Circle made limited use of the building due to its condition. It offers classes in Irish music and culture, and has hosted a concert by Ronan Tynan. Further revenue has been raised by renting the mansion for weddings and banquets, and film shoots. It was first used in that latter capacity as the mansion where Russell Crowe as mathematician John Nash drops mail off there in the 2001 film ""A Beautiful Mind""."
"because they worried that the film would be criticized for suggesting that all people with schizophrenia can overcome their illness without medication. In addition, Nash never gave an acceptance speech for his Nobel prize. ""A Beautiful Mind"" received a limited release on December 21, 2001, receiving positive reviews, with Crowe receiving wide acclaim for his performance. It was later released in the United States on January 4, 2002. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes polled 207 critics and gave the film a 75% approval rating, with an average rating of 7.2/10. The website's critical consensus states, ""The well-acted ""A Beautiful Mind"" is"
"Alicia Nash Alicia Esther Nash (née Lardé Lopez-Harrison; January 1, 1933 – May 23, 2015) was a Salvadoran-American physicist. The wife of mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr., she was a mental-health care advocate, who gave up her professional aspirations to support her husband and son who were both diagnosed with schizophrenia. Her life with Nash was chronicled in the 1998 book, ""A Beautiful Mind"" by Sylvia Nasar, as well as in the 2001 film of the same title, in which she was portrayed by Jennifer Connelly. Alicia Lardé Lopez-Harrison was born January 1, 1933 in El Salvador, the daughter of"
"Zerah Colburn (mental calculator) Zerah Colburn (September 1, 1804 – March 2, 1839) was a child prodigy of the 19th century who gained fame as a mental calculator. Colburn was born in Cabot, Vermont, in 1804. He was thought to be intellectually disabled until the age of six. However, after six weeks of schooling his father overheard him repeating his multiplication tables. His father was not sure whether or not he learned the tables from his older brothers and sisters but he decided to test him further on his mathematical abilities and discovered that there was something special about his"
"Prize. The driver of the taxicab they were riding in from Newark Airport lost control of the cab and struck a guardrail. Both passengers were ejected and killed. Nash was portrayed by Jennifer Connelly in the 2001 film ""A Beautiful Mind"". For her performance, Connelly won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, mentioning Nash during her acceptance speech. Alicia Nash Alicia Esther Nash (née Lardé Lopez-Harrison; January 1, 1933 – May 23, 2015) was a Salvadoran-American physicist. The wife of mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr., she was a mental-health care advocate, who gave up her professional aspirations to support"
"the usual 1st or 2nd place. The British 2014 film X+Y, released in the USA as A Brilliant Young Mind (inspired by Beautiful Young Minds) focuses on an English mathematical genius chosen to represent the United Kingdom at the IMO. In the film this problem is stated to be the hardest problem ever proposed in the history of International Mathematical Olympiad (minutes 9:40-10:30). Other outstanding results of the author include having 4 problems in the shortlist of the 27 problems selected worldwide of the 40th IMO in Romania, and having 5 students win medals in the 41st IMO in South"
"mathematics in his village to kids when a postman comes with a letter. The letter is from British mathematician Perci Trachtenberg (Ben Kingsley), widely regarded as the world's greatest living mathematician, who invites Venkat to a high rolling casino in London. Venkat tells Perci about an equation that could not only change the dialogue on mathematics forever, but one that has already left an indelible impression of guilt — for many painful reasons — on Venkat's life. It is shown in the past that the reclusive genius Venkat has cracked a theory that could redefine the principles of probability and"
"experimental nootropics and as a result has become a mathematical genius. The individual is able to calculate hundreds of equations simultaneously which he uses to manipulate to his advantage to avoid being returned to his original state of cognitive impairment. In the 2012 film ""Safe"", a little girl, math genius, is kidnapped to be used by the Chinese Triad. In the 2014 sc fi novel Double Bill by S. Ayoade, Devi Singh, a mental calculator is one of the 70 lucky children who wins a trip to the moon. In the 2016 film ""The Accountant"", a high-functioning autistic tracks insider"
"Nash learns to ignore his hallucinations. By the late 1970s, he is allowed to teach again. In 1994, Nash wins the Nobel Prize in Economics for his revolutionary work on game theory, and is honored by his fellow professors. The movie ends as Nash, Alicia, and their son leave the auditorium in Stockholm; Nash sees Charles, Marcee, and Parcher standing to one side and watching him. After producer Brian Grazer first read an excerpt of Sylvia Nasar's book ""A Beautiful Mind"" in ""Vanity Fair"" magazine, he immediately purchased the rights to the film. He eventually brought the project to director"
"part one, Curtis examines the rise of game theory during the Cold War and the way in which its mathematical models of human behaviour filtered into economic thought. The programme traces the development of game theory, with particular reference to the work of John Nash (the mathematician portrayed in ""A Beautiful Mind""), who believed that all humans are inherently suspicious and selfish creatures that strategize constantly. Building on his theory, Nash constructed logically consistent and mathematically verifiable models, for which he won the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences, commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics. He"
"was born in Santa Monica in 1925. He is known for his association with John Forbes Nash, as a fellow graduate student, a lifelong friend and colleague, and a key figure in getting Nash the attention of the Nobel Prize committee that led to Nash's 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics. Kuhn and Nash both had long associations and collaborations with Albert W. Tucker, who was Nash's dissertation advisor. Kuhn co-edited ""The Essential John Nash"", and is credited as the mathematics consultant in the 2001 movie adaptation of Nash's life, ""A Beautiful Mind"". Harold Kuhn served as the third president of"
"Irving Joshua Matrix Irving Joshua Matrix — born (Japan, 1908) as Irving Joshua Bush and commonly known as Dr. (I. J.) Matrix — was a fictitious polymath scientist, scholar, cowboy, and entrepreneur who made extraordinary contributions to perpetual motion engineering, Biblical cryptography and numerology, pyramid power, pentagonal meditation, extra-sensory perception, psychic metallurgy, and a number of other topics. He was an accomplished prestidigitator and an intuitive mathematician, two qualities which he put to good use in most of his enterprises. Being a fictitious character he could perform tasks that were logically impossible; for example, he could ""clap one hand in"
"7th Critics' Choice Awards The 7th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 11, 2002, honoring the finest achievements of 2001 filmmaking. ""' Russell Crowe – ""A Beautiful Mind"" ""' Sissy Spacek – ""In the Bedroom"" ""' ""Shrek"" ""' ""Gosford Park"" ""' Dakota Fanning – ""I Am Sam"" ""' Howard Shore – """" ""' Ron Howard – ""A Beautiful Mind"" (TIE) ""' Baz Luhrmann – ""Moulin Rouge!"" (TIE) ""' ""Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"" ""' ""Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain)"" • France ""' ""A Beautiful Mind"" ""' ""Memento"" – Christopher Nolan ""' ""May It Be"" performed by Enya"
"Charles Erwin Wilson; billionaire hedge fund investor and owner of the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League David Tepper; mountaineer and author Aron Ralston; Scott Fahlman, creator of the emoticon; Chris Messina, creator of the hashtag; and astronauts Edgar Mitchell (of Apollo 14) and Judith Resnik, who perished in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. John Forbes Nash, a 1948 graduate and winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics, was the subject of the book and subsequent film ""A Beautiful Mind"". Alan Perlis, a 1943 graduate, was a pioneer in programming languages and recipient of the first ever Turing"
"his studies and give him an ultimatum: Graduate or become a hairdresser at the family salon! In a despondent hunt for graduation points, he crash-lands on Earth by mistake. He meets Pontus (Bill Skarsgård), a limping and bullied 15-year-old with bad eyesight. Pontus has accidentally found a mysterious and luminary power crystal that has given him superpower and the chance to be noticed by the coolest girl in school, Miranda (Carla Abrahamsen). While Pontus tries to help Kenny escape from becoming a hairdresser, Rutger Oversmart (Jan Mybrand), the most intelligent man in the universe, finds out that the power of"
"Grigori Perelman, who solved the Poincaré conjecture and declined the 2006 Fields Medal. The article examined Fields Medalist S.T. Yau's response to Perelman's proof. Some mathematicians wrote letters in defense of Yau over Nasar's portrayal, and Yau threatened to file a lawsuit, but no suit was filed. Sylvia Nasar Sylvia Nasar (born 17 August 1947) is a Uzbek German-born American journalist, best known for her biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., ""A Beautiful Mind"". She received the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography. Nasar was born in Rosenheim, Germany, to a Bavarian mother and an Uzbek father, Rusi Nasar,"
"English in 1816 by George Peacock. Lacroix crater on the Moon was named for him. Sylvestre François Lacroix Sylvestre François Lacroix (28 April 1765, Paris24 May 1843, Paris) was a French mathematician. He was born in Paris, and was raised in a poor family who still managed to obtain a good education for their son. Lacroix's path to mathematics started with the novel Robinson Crusoe. That gave him an interest in sailing and thus navigation too. At that point geometry captured his interest and the rest of mathematics followed. He had courses with Antoine-René Mauduit at College Royale de France"
"encoded by an enigma machine can not appear as itself, the actual message behind the code is uncertain. A plaque at the statue's feet reads 'Father of computer science, mathematician, logician, wartime codebreaker, victim of prejudice'. There is also a Bertrand Russell quotation: ""Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture."" The sculptor buried his own old Amstrad computer under the plinth as a tribute to ""the godfather of all modern computers"". In 1999, ""Time"" magazine named Turing as one of the and stated, ""The fact remains that everyone who"
"and the Dead"" in 1995. He went on to become a three-time Oscar nominee, winning the Academy Award as Best Actor in 2000 for ""Gladiator"". Crowe was awarded the (Australian) Centenary Medal in 2001 for ""service to Australian society and Australian film production."" Crowe received three consecutive best actor Oscar nominations, for ""The Insider"", ""Gladiator"" and ""A Beautiful Mind"". Crowe won the best actor award for ""A Beautiful Mind"" at the 2002 BAFTA award ceremony, as well as the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for the same performance. Although nominated for an Academy Award, he lost to Denzel"
"are shown, whose notability extends beyond their field into popular culture. See Faculty and Alumni lists above."" Also: Princeton was the setting of the Academy Award-winning ""A Beautiful Mind"" about the schizophrenic mathematician John Nash. It was largely filmed in central New Jersey, including some Princeton locations. However, many scenes of ""Princeton"" were actually filmed at Fordham University's Rose Hill campus in the Bronx. The 1994 film ""I.Q."", featuring Meg Ryan, Tim Robbins, and Walter Matthau as Albert Einstein, was also set in Princeton, and was filmed in the area. It includes some geographic stretches, including Matthau looking through a"
"heard it from another, unidentified source. Another, more prosaic story claims that Wolfskehl wanted to leave as little as possible to his shrewish wife. Yet another story, told in ""The man who loved only numbers"" by Paul Hoffman, tells that Wolfskehl actually missed his supposed suicide time because he was in the library studying the Theorem. Upon realizing that, he concluded that the contemplation of mathematics was more rewarding than a beautiful woman so he decided not to kill himself. He bankrolled the Theorem because it ""saved his life"". On June 27, 1997, the prize was finally won by Andrew"
"computation left him about the time he reached adulthood. He died of tuberculosis at the age of 34 and was buried in Norwich’s Old Meeting House Cemetery. His nephew, also named Zerah Colburn, was a noted locomotive engineer and technical journalist. He has known descendants living in Vermont. Zerah Colburn (mental calculator) Zerah Colburn (September 1, 1804 – March 2, 1839) was a child prodigy of the 19th century who gained fame as a mental calculator. Colburn was born in Cabot, Vermont, in 1804. He was thought to be intellectually disabled until the age of six. However, after six weeks"