Book Review: A Beautiful Mind

A beautiful mind.

John Forbes Nash, Jr. was a child prodigy. While other boys his age were playing childhood games in their hometown of Bluefield, West Virginia, John was reading E.T. Bell’s Men of Mathematics. Learning more at home than he did at school, the young lad (who was encouraged by his educated parents) was able to solve some of math’s most difficult problems. Accepting a full-ride fellowship to Prince...

Book Review: The Animal Mind

John Nash and A Beautiful Mind

J ohn Forbes Nash Jr. published his first paper with his father at age seventeen. His thesis, at age twenty-one, presented clear and elementary mathematical ideas that inaugurated a slow revolution in fields as diverse as economics, political science, and evolutionary biology. During the following nine years, in an amazing surge of mathematical activity, he sought out and often solved the tough...

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The beautiful otherness of the autistic mind.

1. INTRODUCTION Of all the features of autism, none is more widely admired than the remarkable talent found so frequently with this condition. Yet special talents are still less researched and less well understood than other features of autism. In popular accounts of autism, the existence of extraordinary talent in art, music, maths, calendar calculation or memory, often referred to as savant s...