Mathematician John Nash and wife killed in car crash

  

I guess you all remember the Hollywood film  "A Beautiful Mind" of 2001 which won an Oscar with Russell Crowe as lead actor,The Film  portrays John Nash, one of the greatest Mathematician of 20th century who suffers paranoid schizophrenia.
John Nash died in a taxi crash with his wife Alicia 82 on New Jersey Turnpike, the couple were not wearing seat belt and they were ejected from the car when their car crash into the guard rail.
The couple just flew in from Norway where he received an award from the Norwegian Academy of Science and letters in Oslo.his fellow recipient of the prize in Oslo Louis Nureberg said he chatted with him at Newark airport before he took the cab that killed him on their way home.
He won the Nobel prize for Economics in 1994 for his work on game theory,which offers insight into the dynamics of human rivalry.Nash was associated with Princeton University for many years and became recently a Senior Research Mathematician.he was 86 years old.


Tributes poured in from Princeton University professor,Russell Crowe sent also a tweet