This was a hard book to plough through. It is over rich in detail, which tends to bog down the story. While I realise this isn't a novel, the story of this man's life, genius, troubles, and triumphs are extraordinary, and are buried under trivial and dull minutia. I'll admit that I couldn't finish this book because it was too tedious trying to get to the interesting bits while wading through an insipid history lesson. I'm afraid the book tried TOO hard to do justice to an otherwise fascinating life and man.

This is just the most interesting book I have ever read. This gives me encouragement to become something in life and be like Nash. I wish it were published long time ago. Again its a great book and do read it.

The author has done a great job in writing a book about a professor who becomes mentally ill after all of his accomplishments.

John Forbes is a brilliant man who is a mathematician who could solve almost any math problem on paper. He is probably one of the greatest mathematicians of our modern times. He sadly becomes mentally ill after the age of thirty and becomes disillusioned. He was recognized for his game theory later on in his life time and ends up winning the nobel peace prize.

This book is very inspirational.

this book was great!