Sylvia Nasar

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 in 1951 to the United States (Washington, DC and New York) and in 1960 in Turkey ( Ankara). 1965 returned to her family back in the United States. She studied economics, among others in New York and Munich.

In 1998 she published by Simon & Schuster 's biography of the mathematician John F. Nash A Beautiful Mind. In Germany the book was published under the titles on the strange seas of thought ( Piper, 1999) or genius and insanity. The life of the brilliant mathematician John Nash ( TB Piper, 2002). The film adaptation of the book by Ron Howard in 2001, won four Oscars.

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 German: On the strange seas of thought. The life of the brilliant mathematician John Nash, Piper 1999 ISBN 978-3-492-03800-3; as TB: genius and madness. The life of the brilliant mathematician John Nash, Piper 2002 ( Serie Piper 3974 ), ISBN 978-3-492-23674-4