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Sylvia Nasar

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Total quotes: 2

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Sylvia Nasar

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Birthday: August 17, 1947

Educated At: Antioch College, Antioch University

Nationality: Germany

Occupations: University Teacher, Economist, Journalist, Biographer, Writer

Total quotes: 2

“Nash displayed an ironic awareness that his insights were essentially private, unique to himself, and bound to seem strange or unbelievable to others. 'This concept that I want to describe will perhaps sound absurd,' is the sort of preface of which Nash used frequently. His sentences were filled with phrases like 'consider,' 'as if,' 'may be thought of as,' as if he were conducting a thought experiment or realizing that someone reading what he wrote would have to translate it into another language.”

— Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

Tagged: Modify It, Modifers, How To Write, The Unsayable

“His normally gentle demeanor and ironic banter hid a violent temper and a harshly self-critical streak. When challenged in some unexpected fashion, he could become hysterical, literally vibrating and shaking with furry. His perfectionism, which would later prevent him from publishing a large portion of his research, was extreme. He was, moreover, acutely self-conscious about being a few years older than some of the brilliant young men around the Princeton mathematics department.”

— Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

Tagged: Age, Perfectionism, John Nash

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