R.I.P. John and Alicia Nash ("A Beautiful Mind")

John Nash, mathematician who inspired A Beautiful Mind, dead after car crash

Mathematician John Nash, the Nobel Prize winner who inspired the film A Beautiful Mind, has been killed in a car accident along with his wife in New Jersey. He was 86.

Nash and his wife, Alicia Nash, 82, were in a taxi accident Saturday, New Jersey State Police Sergeant First Class Gregory Williams told CBC News.

Police responded to the accident at 4:30 p.m. local time on the New Jersey Turnpike southbound.

Two people had been ejected from the vehicle, Williams said, and were pronounced dead at the scene.

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The Oscar award-winning film A Beautiful Mind starring Russell Crowe was loosely based on Nash's longtime struggle with schizophrenia.

(CBC)

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