Beautiful Mind’s Nash killed in taxi crash
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MATHEMATICIAN John Nash, a Nobel Prize winner who inspired the movie “A Beautiful Mind,” was killed in a car crash along with his wife in New Jersey, police said yesterday.
The couple were in a taxi cab whose driver lost control and crashed into a guard rail on Saturday afternoon while driving on the New Jersey Turnpike, said police spokesman Gregory Williams.
They were thrown from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene, Williams said.
Nash was 86 and his wife was 82. They lived in Princeton Junction, New Jersey.
Nash was awarded the Nobel Prize for economics in 1994 for his work on game theory and the mathematics of decision-making.
The Oscar award-winning film “A Beautiful Mind” starring Russell Crowe was loosely based on Nash’s longtime struggle with schizophrenia. Crowe said yesterday that he was stunned by reports of the deaths.
“An amazing partnership. Beautiful minds, beautiful hearts,” he wrote on Twitter.
“A Beautiful Mind” won four Oscars, including best picture and best director, and generated interest in John Nash’s life story. The movie was based on an unauthorized biography by Sylvia Nasar, who wrote that Nash’s contemporaries found him “immensely strange” and “slightly cold, a bit superior, somewhat secretive.”
Much of his demeanor likely stemmed from mental illness, which began emerging in 1959 when Alicia was pregnant with a son. The film, though, did not mention Nash’s older son or the years that he and Alicia spent living together after divorcing. The couple split in 1963, but remarried in 2001.
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