“A Beautiful Mind” Mathematician John Nash Dies In Car Crash

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The mathematician who inspired the award-winning film, “A Beautiful Mind,” was killed on Saturday in a car crash. 86 year-old John Nash and his 82 year-old wife, Alice Nash lost their lives while driving in the afternoon on the New Jersey Turnpike, according to New Jersey State Police.

Russell Crowe, who portrayed the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician in the 2001 film tweeted, “Stunned … my heart goes out to John & Alicia & family. An amazing partnership. Beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.”

Nash won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994. They lived in Princeton, N.J., where John Nash was a senior research mathematician at Princeton University.

The famous film, “A Beautiful Mind” was loosely based on Nash’s life and his battle with schizophrenia.

To read more about the life of John Nash, visit: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/nash/peopleevents/p_jnash.html