John Nash passed away in a car accident
John F. Nash Jr. and his wife Alicia were killed in a car accident on Saturday in New Jersey. The couple were returning home by taxi from the airport after a trip to Norway, where Dr. Nash and Louis Nirenberg, a mathematician from New York University, had received the Abel Prize from the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
John Nash was a former Princeton University professor who shared a Nobel Prize in 1994 for work that greatly extended the reach and power of modern economic theory.
Nash struggled with schizophrenia having even been commited to an asylum to receive treatment. His illness was the subject of a book and a film, both titled “A Beautiful Mind”, released in 2001 and directed by Ron Howard.
John Nash was 86.
Source: The New York Times
25 May 2015