Famed Mathematician John Nash Dies In Car Crash

John F. Nash Jr., the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician whose life was the subject of a movie, has died in a car crash near Trenton, N.J., according to medias reports Sunday. Nash's battle with schizophrenia was made into the 2001 movie, "A Beautiful Mind." Nash, 86 and his wife Alicia, 82, of Princeton Junction, N.J.,were killed in a taxi crash on the New Jersey Turnpike on Saturday, the Associated Press reported. Nash won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1994 for his work in game theory, which offered insight into the dynamics of human rivalry, the AP reported.

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