'Beautiful Mind' mathematician John Nash killed
US mathematician John Nash, whose life story was turned into the Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind, has died in a car crash, local media has reported.
Nash, 86, and his wife Alicia were both killed when their taxi crashed in New Jersey, the reports said.
The mathematician is renowned for his work in game theory, winning the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994.
His breakthroughs in maths - and his struggles with schizophrenia - were the focus of the film.
Russell Crowe, who played him in the film, tweeted: "Stunned... My heart goes out to John & Alicia & family. An amazing partnership. Beautiful minds, beautiful hearts."
John Nash & Wife Dead
Nobel laureate killed in taxi crash
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by Strontium Dog » May 24, 2015 2:05 pm
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#2 by Fallible » May 24, 2015 3:01 pm
Terrible. 
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#3 by monkeyboy » May 24, 2015 3:01 pm
sad day!The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.
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#4 by DougC » May 25, 2015 12:53 am
Sad.
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#5 by Made of Stars » May 25, 2015 12:12 pm
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#6 by DarthHelmet86 » May 25, 2015 12:13 pm
I haz sad.
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#7 by tuco » May 25, 2015 12:13 pm
If the movie was close to reality it was one relationship they had.
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#8 by kennyc » May 25, 2015 1:39 pm
What's especially sad is that they died in a completely random and unexpected manner.....in a taxi car crash....
Their son has both the same mathematical mind and the same schizophrenia....
Their son has both the same mathematical mind and the same schizophrenia....
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#9 by Warren Dew » May 25, 2015 1:57 pm
kennyc wrote:What's especially sad is that they died in a completely random and unexpected manner.....in a taxi car crash....
Indeed. A disproportionate number of my favorite old people seem to die in accidents rather than from the normal chronic diseases.
I'm also kind of sad that he seems to be remembered mostly as the subject of a movie, with limited coverage of his discovery of Nash equilibrium.
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#10 by Ironclad » May 25, 2015 6:59 pm
That isn't the way to go; a sad day.
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#11 by Strontium Dog » May 25, 2015 7:03 pm
It seems they were flung from the vehicle as they weren't wearing seatbelts. I guess it goes to show that all the intelligence in the world means little if it isn't accompanied by common sense. What an unnecessary loss.
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#12 by Warren Dew » May 25, 2015 7:36 pm
Strontium Dog wrote:It seems they were flung from the vehicle as they weren't wearing seatbelts. I guess it goes to show that all the intelligence in the world means little if it isn't accompanied by common sense. What an unnecessary loss.
A lot of taxis in the U.S. don't even have seat belts - that is, they've disappeared between the seat cushions and are irretrievable.
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#13 by Nautilidae » May 25, 2015 7:45 pm
I read this headline yesterday on a movie set and spent the rest of my day in just enough daze to be disconnected from it. Nash was an inspiration to me, despite how flawed he was as a person. I was a bit upset that A Beautiful Mind didn't cover the birth of his first son and how he abandoned -- and for many years refused to acknowledge -- his family.
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#14 by DougC » May 25, 2015 11:22 pm
Strontium Dog wrote:It seems they were flung from the vehicle as they weren't wearing seatbelts. I guess it goes to show that all the intelligence in the world means little if it isn't accompanied by common sense. What an unnecessary loss.
Run through the finer points of Game Theory one more time....
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