![]() ![]() Nasar notes that Nash’s contemporaries find him “immensely strange,” “aloof,” “haughty,” “cold,” and “without affect.” These are qualities Nash demonstrates throughout A Beautiful Mind, as he continually alienates those around him in order to focus on academic success, which he gains easily as a result of his own antisocial attitudes. In this way, Nasar resists the commonly accepted idea that individual genius transcends questions of morality and culpability. Instead, she suggests that while Nash was able to get ahead as a mathematician in part because of his intense aversion to sociality, his actions made his life much more difficult. In A Beautiful Mind, Nasar does not attempt to excuse or justify Nash’s behavior. Though exceedingly intelligent in the world of academia, he lacks a sense of social awareness and is often cruel, commandeering, and downright uncaring to the people around him: his friends, family, and peers. ![]() Throughout Nasar’s biography, John Nash is portrayed as a wholly complicated figure. ![]()
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