A Beautiful Mind

'Beautiful Mind' mathematician John Nash killed in US car crash: police

Nobel prize-winning US mathematician John Nash, famously portrayed in the movie "A Beautiful Mind," was killed with his wife Alicia in New Jersey when a taxi they were riding in crashed, police said May 24.

"The taxi passengers were ejected," Sergeant Gregory Williams told AFP, adding that they were both killed in the accident on May 23. Nash was 86.

‘Beautiful Mind’ John Nash, 86, dead in car accident

Game theory pioneer and Nobel Prize laureate John Nash, 86, whose life, works and painful struggle with schizophrenia formed the basis of the Academy Award-winning movie “A Beautiful Mind”, died on Saturday in a car accident in New Jersey.
Nash perished along with his wife Alicia, in a crash on the New Jersey Turnpike.