Sunday, May 24, 2015

Dead John Nash, the mathematician who inspired … A Beautiful Mind – The Messenger

The mathematician John Nash, whose story inspired the film “A Beautiful Mind”, was killed in New Jersey with his wife in a taxi accident.
Nash had 86 years, his wife Alicia 82. They were married for 60 years, lived in Princeton They died in an accident on the New Jersey Turnpike.

Nash and his wife They were on board a taxi when the driver lost control ending up against the guard rail. This was reported by the police sergeant Gregory Williams, stating that according to the police the two would not wear seat belts, since both are finished out of the car.

The couple had just He returned to Norway, and was in return taxi from the airport. The mathematician had received Tuesday the Abel Prize for mathematics, from the hands of King Harald.

Neither the taxi driver nor the car driver suffered serious injuries, as both were wearing seat belts Safety unlike John and Alicia.

After the news, Russell Crowe, who played him in the film “A Beautiful Mind”, he tweeted: “Shocked … My thoughts are with John and Alicia and their families. Beautiful minds, beautiful hearts “(Belle minds, good hearts), wrote the actor.

Nash won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994. This is the ceremony for the prestigious award :

             Sunday, May 24, 2015, 15:55 – Last Updated: 16:55
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