John Nash: ‘Beautiful Mind’ mathematician killed in crash
Mathematician John Nash, a Nobel Prize winner who inspired the movie A Beautiful Mind, dies in an auto accident along with his wife in New Jersey.
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The couple were in a taxi cab whose driver lost control and crashed into a guard rail, state police said.
The Oscar award-winning film A Beautiful Mind starring Russell Crowe was loosely based on Nash’s longtime struggle with schizophrenia.
The Nashes were in a taxi traveling southbound in the left lane of the New Jersey Turnpike, State Police Sergeant Gregory Williams told US media.
Crowe wrote on Twitter on Sunday that he was stunned by reports of the death of Nash and his wife, Alicia.
Stunned…my heart goes out to John & Alicia & family.
An amazing partnership. Beautiful minds, beautiful hearts. https://t.co/XF4V9MBwU4
— Russell Crowe (@russellcrowe) May 24, 2015
Nash, a West Virginia native, won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994, the year before he joined the Princeton mathematics department as a senior research mathematician. He is known for his work in game theory and his advocacy over mental health.
In addition to the Nobel, Nash has won the John von Neumann Theory Prize (1978) and the American Mathematical Society’s Steele Prize for a Seminal Contribution to Research (1999).
Earlier this week, Nash received the Abel Prize in Norway, another top honour in the field of mathematics.
John Nash was 86 and his wife was 82, according to ABC News, which reported the couple was living in Princeton, New Jersey.