Famed mathematician John Nash and his wife Alicia Nash were killed Saturday in a taxi crash on the New Jersey Turnpike, NJ.com reports.
Nash, a Princeton University mathematics professor, won the Nobel Prize for economics in 1994 for his work in game theory, specifically the "Nash equilibrium." Nash's battle with paranoid schizophrenia was documented in the 2001 Academy Award best picture winning film "A Beautiful Mind."
"For the better part of 20 years, his once supremely rational mind was beset by delusions and hallucinations," The Washington Post reports. "By the time Dr. Nash emerged from his disturbed state, his ideas had influenced economics, foreign affairs, politics, biology — virtually every sphere of life fueled by competition."
John Nash was 86 years old, and Alicia Nash was 82 years old, according to NJ.com. They were first married in 1957.
The couple lived in Princeton, New Jersey and were returning home from a trip to Norway, NJ.com reports, where Nash received the Abel Prize for mathematics for his work on nonlinear partial differential equations.
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