John Forbes Nash Jr., a Nobel Prize-winning mathematician and inspiration for A Beautiful Mind, died in a May 23rd car accident that also took the life of his wife Alicia. John Nash was 86 and ...

Nobody could calculate these odds. John Nash Jr., the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician whose struggle with schizophrenia inspired the film “A Beautiful Mind,” was killed with his wife in a ...

John Nash, the brilliant mathematician and the man for whom the movie A Beautiful Mind is based, was killed in a car crash Saturday on the New Jersey Turnpike. He was 86. His wife Alicia was also ...

Mathematician and Nobel Prize winner John Nash (L) and his wife Alicia Nash attend a screening of 'A Beautiful Mind' at the Alamo Drafthouse on Sept. 16, 2012 in Austin, Texas.

Mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr., who inspired the movie ‘A Beautiful Mind’ which chronicled the Nobel Prize winner’s struggle with schizophrenia, was killed in a crash on the New Jersey ...

John Nash Jr., Subject of ‘A Beautiful Mind,’ Dies in Taxi Crash at 86. The mathematician was played by Russell Crowe in the 2001 Ron Howard-directed film. By Ryan Gajewski. Plus Icon.

John Nash, mathematician and Nobel laureate in economics, died in a taxi accident on May 23; he was 86. His wife, Alicia, was with him and also did not survive the crash.

In 2001, Russell Crowe portrayed Nash in the biographical film "A Beautiful Mind," which focused on Nash's struggle with delusions and paranoid schizophrenia and the impacts on his wife Alicia.

In 1994, John Nash won a Nobel Prize in economics for his work on game theory, but the renowned mathematician's road to success was full of hardships. He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia ...

John Nash, the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician whose life story inspired the movie A Beautiful Mind, and his wife, Alicia Nash, were killed Saturday afternoon in a car crash on the New Jersey ...

The 2001 film "A Beautiful Mind" won four Oscars, including best picture and best director, and generated interest in John Nash's life story. The movie was based on an unauthorized biography by ...

Nash, the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician whose struggle with schizophrenia was chronicled in the 2001 movie "A Beautiful Mind,” died in a car crash along with his wife in New Jersey on ...