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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

TRENTON, N.J. – John Forbes Nash Jr., a mathematical genius whose struggle with schizophrenia was chronicled in the 2001 movie “A Beautiful Mind,”” has died along with his wife in a car ...

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 ...

Nobel prize-winning mathematician John F. Nash Jr., subject of Ron Howard's Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind, was killed Saturday in a car crash in New Jersey along with his wife, Alicia. Nash ...

John Nash, Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed mathematician whose life was depicted in the Academy Award-winning film "A Beautiful Mind" was killed alongside his wife in a taxi crash on the New ...