A Beautiful Mind Mathematician John Nash, wife killed in New Jersey crash
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(Monroe NJ, May 23, 2015) John Forbes Nash Jr, and his wife, Alicia Nash, of nearly 60 years was killed in a taxi cab crash on the New Jersey Turnpike. Nash was returning to his home in Princeton Junction (NJ) from a trip to Norway having landed at Newark Liberty Airport. Nash was in Norway to receive the Abel Prize for mathematics from King Harald V. Nash received the award along with colleague Louis Nirenberg for his work on nonlinear partial differential equations. Nash, a mathematician at Princeton University, is known for his work on game theory and his struggle with paranoid schizophrenia, depicted in the 2001 film, A Beautiful Mind, starring Russell Crowe.
Nash’s death may focus attention on the use of seat belts by passengers and the lack of seatbelts in some taxi and limousines. Nash’s death comes on the heels of the death of 60 Minutes long term correspondent Bob Simon who died in a Limousine accident in February (2015) in New York City. Both Nash, his wife Alicia Nash, and Bob Simon were unrestrained passengers. (more…)