* John Forbes Nash, Jr. ( born 1928 ), American mathematician, 1994 Nobel Economics laureate, subject of the book and film titled A Beautiful Mind

In 2001, Crowe's portrayal of mathematician and Nobel Prize winner John F. Nash in the biopic A Beautiful Mind brought him numerous awards, including an BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor category Motion Picture Drama and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role.

Crowe received three consecutive best actor Oscar nominations, for The Insider, Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind.

Crowe won the best actor award for A Beautiful Mind at the 2002 BAFTA award ceremony, as well as the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for the same performance.

All three films were also nominated for best picture, and both Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind won the award.

In 2005, he re-teamed with A Beautiful Mind director Ron Howard for Cinderella Man.

His life has been the subject of the 2001 Academy Award-winning film A Beautiful Mind ( film ) | A Beautiful Mind.

* Oscar winners: Gladiator ( 2000 ), A Beautiful Mind ( 2001 ), Chicago ( 2002 ), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ( 2003 ), Million Dollar Baby ( 2004 ), Crash ( 2005 ), The Departed ( 2006 ), No Country for Old Men ( 2007 ), Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ), The Hurt Locker ( 2009 )

* March 24 – The 74th Academy Awards, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, are held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California with the film A Beautiful Mind winning Best Picture.

According to the book A Beautiful Mind, John Nash ( one of the game's inventors ) advocated 14 × 14 as the optimal size.

However, according to Sylvia Nasar's biography of John Forbes Nash A Beautiful Mind, the game was referred to as " Nash " or " John " after its apparent creator.

A Beautiful Mind may refer to:

** A Beautiful Mind ( film ), the film adaptation of the same title

*** A Beautiful Mind ( soundtrack ), the associated soundtrack album

* A Beautiful Mind .... of a Gladiator, film parody

pt: A Beautiful Mind

These include A Clockwork Orange, The Snake Pit, Quantum Leap ( TV series ), Stargate, Frances, Requiem for a Dream, the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey as well as the movie adaptation, Melrose Place, A Beautiful Mind, The Caretaker, The Best of Youth, House ; The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Shine, The Beverly Hillbillies ( film ), the film version of Girl, Interrupted, Insanitarium, Changeling, Ciao!

His films include the Academy Award-winning Cocoon, Apollo 13, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and A Beautiful Mind.

He has since directed a number of high-visibility films, including Splash, Cocoon, Willow, Parenthood, Backdraft, Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind ( for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director ), Cinderella Man, The Da Vinci Code, and Angels & Demons.

Howard and Brian Grazer at a Tribeca Film Festival panel on A Beautiful Mind ( film ) | A Beautiful Mind

* Lynn Sherr's 2001 book America the Beautiful discusses the origins of the song and the backgrounds of its authors in depth.

* Barbara Younger has written a children's book about the writing of the song: Purple Mountain Majesties: The Story of Katharine Lee Bates and " America the Beautiful ".

On 15 November 2007, at the launch of the book, Young Brave and Beautiful: The Missions of Special Operations Executive Agent Lieutenant Violette Szabo, at The Jersey War Tunnels, the Lieutenant Governor of Jersey said of her, " She's an inspiration to those young people today doing the same work with the risk of the same dangers ".

* Treating Code as an Essay-Matz's writeup for the book Beautiful Code, edited by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson, O ' Reilly, 2007.

* Economist E. F. Schumacher publishes his book Small is Beautiful.

The term and metaphor were first used by E. F. Schumacher in his book Small Is Beautiful and are closely identified with Herman Daly, Robert Costanza, the Biosphere 2 project, and the Natural Capitalism economic model of Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and Hunter Lovins until recently, when it began to be used by politicians, notably Ralph Nader, Paul Martin Jr., and agencies of the UK government including the London Health Observatory.

A reaction against this tradition, poet Leonard Cohen's novel Beautiful Losers ( 1966 ), was labelled by one reviewer " the most revolting book ever written in Canada ".

His first book, The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems, appeared in 1947.

He is also the author of Last Orders at the Liars ' Bar, the official biography of The Beautiful South, and Stay Sonic, a book giving background history for the Sega character Sonic the Hedgehog.

In her book " The Beautiful Side of Evil ", Johanna Michaelsen describes her negative experience with the technique.

Schiavelli succumbed to lung cancer on December 26, 2005, aged 57, at his home in Polizzi Generosa, the Sicilian town where his grandfather was born, and about which he wrote in his 2002 book Many Beautiful Things: Stories and Recipes from Polizzi Generosa ( ISBN 0-7432-1528-1 ).

The town also featured in a critically praised short story entitled " The Long, Long Road to Uttoxeter " by journalist and TV presenter Rod Liddle in his book Too Beautiful for You.

E. F. Schumacher asserts that such technology, described in the book Small is Beautiful tends to promote values such as health, beauty and permanence, in that order.

* 1973 E. F. Schumacher published a collection of essays on shifting towards sustainable living through the appropriate use of technology in his book Small is Beautiful.

A British musical, Beautiful and Damned, with a book by Kit Hesketh Harvey and music and lyrics by Les Reed and Roger Cook opened in London's West End in 2004 with Helen Anker as Zelda.

Her fame can be in large part attributed to the 1969 documentary Something Beautiful for God, which was filmed by Malcolm Muggeridge and his 1971 book of the same title.

According to The Times Literary Supplement, his 1973 book Small Is Beautiful: a study of economics as if people mattered is among the 100 most influential books published since World War II.

In 1854 he published his influential book On the Beautiful in Music.

The theoretical framework of Hanslick's criticism is expounded in his book of 1854, Vom Musikalisch-Schönen ( On the Musically Beautiful ), which started as an attack on the Wagnerian aesthetic and established itself as an influential text, subsequently going through many editions and translations in several languages.

The Magic of Oz: A Faithful Record of the Remarkable Adventures of Dorothy and Trot and the Wizard of Oz, Together with the Cowardly Lion, the Hungry Tiger and Cap ' n Bill, in Their Successful Search for a Magical and Beautiful Birthday Present for Princess Ozma of Oz is the thirteenth Land of Oz book written by L. Frank Baum.

* In the 2010 book Beautiful Darkness the character Olivia Durand is from Kings Langley.

His later accomplishments include writing the book " Chemistry: A Beautiful Thing " and achieving his high stature as a Pulitzer Prize nominee.