John Nash, 86, the mathematician made famous in the 2001 Russell Crowe movie A Beautiful Mind, has been killed in a taxi crash in New Jersey along with his wife Alicia, 82.
John Forbes Nash Jr., a mathematical genius whose struggle with schizophrenia was chronicled in the 2001 movie A Beautiful Mind, has died along with his wife in a car crash on the New Jersey Turnpike. He was 86.
Nash and Alicia Nash, 82, of Princeton Township, were killed in a taxi crash on Saturday, state police said.
A colleague who had received an award with Nash in Norway earlier in the week said they had just flown home and the couple had taken a cab home from the airport.
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