John Forbes Nash Jr., the brilliant Princeton University mathematician whose life story was the subject of the film „A Beautiful Mind,“ was killed with his wife Alicia on Saturday in a crash on the New Jersey Turnpike.(…)
Nash, a West Virginia Native, shared a Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994, the year before he joined the Princeton mathematics department as a senior research mathematician. He is known for his work in game theory and his struggle with paranoid schizophrenia, depicted in the 2001 film, „A Beautiful Mind,“ starring Russell Crowe.