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John Nash
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Mathematician John
Nash, a Nobel Prize winner who inspired the movie "A Beautiful Mind,"
was killed in a car crash along with his wife in New Jersey, state police said
on Sunday.
The couple were in a taxi cab whose driver lost control and
crashed into a guard rail on Saturday afternoon while driving on the New Jersey
Turnpike, said Sgt. Gregory Williams, a spokesman for the New Jersey State
Police.
They were thrown from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the
scene, Williams said.
Nash was 86 and his wife was 82, and were living in Princeton
Junction, New Jersey, according to New Jersey police.
Nash was awarded the Nobel Prize for economics in 1994 for his
work on game theory and the mathematics of decision-making.
The Oscar award-winning film "A Beautiful
Mind" starring Russell Crowe was loosely based on Nash's longtime struggle
with schizophrenia.
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