Famed 'A Beautiful Mind' mathematician John Nash, wife, killed in N.J ... - NJ.com
MONROE — 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 was 86. Alicia Nash was 82. The couple lived in Princeton Junction. Police said the two were in a taxi traveling southbound in the left lane of the turnpike when the driver of the Ford Crown Victoria lost control as he tried to pass a Chrysler in the center lane, crashing into a guard rail near Interchange 8A in... The second vehicle also crashed into the guard rail, Williams said. A passenger in the Chrysler was treated for neck pain. Nash had been in Norway on Tuesday to receive the Abel Prize for Mathematics from King Harald V for his work, along with longtime colleague Louis Nirenberg, for their work on nonlinear partial differential equations. Why John Nash was important to the world beyond mathematics Reached at his home Sunday, Nirenberg, who had known Nash since the 1950s, called him a "wonderful mathematician. " After flying back with the couple back from Norway, he said they got into a taxi at the airport for the ride back home together. Source: www.nj.com
