This book is the biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., who suffered from a disease called paranoid schizophrenia in his 30s. His story talks about how the society treats unusual people. However John's wife Alicia, guided him through a world that had become hostile to him. He was an arrogant young mathematician whose genius mind developed the structure for what became known as Game Theory. Ultimately in his late 80s, he remitted from his long time disease and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics for his contribution to game theory. This book is the story of a stubborn, brilliant, pessimistic, and extraordinary genius, demonstrating that anyone's life can be turned around.
