Sunday, May 24, 2015

John Nash, R. I. P.

John Nash, Subject of A Beautiful Mind, Killed In Taxi CrashPrinceton University mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr., played by Russell Crowe as the subject of the film A Beautiful Mind, and his wife of nearly 60 years died Saturday in a taxi crash on the New Jersey Turnpike. Nash was 86 and his wife Alicia was 82.

2 comments:

Jeff Meyerson said...

According to Wikipedia, the Nashes were actually divorced after the events depicted in the movie, got back together later on, and were in fact married for the last 15 years.

I hadn't realized any of this,

Jeff

Deb said...

How sad! Actually, I didn't realize he was still alive.