John Forbes Nash Jr., the brilliant Princeton University mathematician whose life story was the subject of the film "A Beautiful Mind," was killed with his wife Alicia on Saturday in a crash on the New Jersey Turnpike.Nash was 86. Alicia Nash was 82. The couple lived in Princeton Junction.Police said the two were in a taxi traveling southbound in the left lane of the turnpike when the driver of the Ford Crown Victoria lost control as he tried to pass a Chrysler in the center lane, crashing into a guard rail near Interchange 8A in Monroe Township, according to State Police Sgt. Gregory Williams.The couple was ejected from the car, Williams said."It doesn't appear that they were wearing seatbelts," he said.The second vehicle also crashed into the guard rail, Williams said. The taxi driver was extricated from the vehicle and flown to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick with non-life-threatening injuries. He was identified as Tark Girgis, 46, of Elizabeth. A passenger inthe Chrysler was treated for neck pain.The crash was reported at 4:30 p.m. The couple were pronounced dead at the scene at 5:18 p.m., said authorities.A spokesman for the Middlesex County Prosecutor's office said no charges were expected to be filed in the case.Nash had been in Norway on Tuesday to receive the Abel Prize for Mathematicsfrom King Harald V for his work, along with longtime colleague Louis Nirenberg, for their work on nonlinear partial differential equations.Why John Nash was important to the world beyond mathematicsReached at his home Sunday, Nirenberg, who had known Nash since the 1950s, called him a "wonderful mathematician." After flying back with the couple back from Norway, he said they got into a taxi at the airport for the ride back home together.Nash, a West Virginia Native, shared a Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994, the year before he joined the Princeton mathematics department as a senior research mathematician. He isknown for his work in game theoryand his struggle with paranoid schizophrenia, depicted in the 2001 film, "A Beautiful Mind," starring Russell Crowe.In a Tweet, Crowe today said he was stunned. "My heart goes out to John&Alicia & family," he wrote. "An amazing partnership. Beautiful minds, beautiful hearts."
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Common, don't be a silly fella. John Nash is legendary, and you prolly can't achieve a quarter of his feats in 5 lifetimes. Show some respect

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Has he contributed anything to Nigerian education?



Anyway may his gentle soul rest in perfect peace