¶ … Beautiful Mind This is a beautiful and gripping biographical work on John Nash, the mathematical genius, by Sylvia Nasar. Nasar's work is an engaging depiction of the meteoric rise of the prodigious Nash into the mathematical fraternity and the ironical affliction that he had to face, battling against the degenerative schizophrenia. Nasar discusses all the trouble that Nash had to undergo being inflicted by schizophrenia, which totally ruined his personality and paralyzed the blossoming of his innate precocity. The biography of Nash, which culminates in his being awarded the Nobel Prize in economics (1994) for his work on game theory, which incidentally was done some 40 years ago, suggests the inevitability of recognition, a triumph of the genius. The splendor of Genius can never fade though it is submerged under the cloud of circumstances.

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His recovery from the dreaded disease not only marked the rebirth of his scientific acumen but also the lost touch of humanness, which is really a blessing in disguise. (A renaissance!)
The one important theme that is ingrained in the real story is the power of love, sacrifice and the support which Nash's wife Alicia Larde gave to her husband in times of distress. Though they were divorced in 1963 Alicia came back to him at the critical phase of his life when he was having a catastrophically elaborate mental breakdown. It requires enormous amount of patience, perseverance and above all real understanding to continue the relationship under such circumstances. One can be sure that without…