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unusual facts about A Beautiful Mind


A Beautiful Mind

Beautiful Young Minds, a documentary following a British team of mathematical competitors (on 2006 International Mathematical Olympiad)


Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Sylvia Nasar wrote in her book A Beautiful Mind that in February 1995, after acrimony pertaining to the awarding of the 1994 Prize in Economics to John Forbes Nash, the Prize in Economics was redefined as a prize in social science.

Robert M. Lindner

In 1954 the publication of "The Jet-Propelled Couch" as a two-part article in Harper's caused a small sensation with its tale of the mental crack-up of a key government scientist and his treatment by Lindner; the story bears some similarities to the much later book and film A Beautiful Mind.


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