NEW YORK
American mathematician John Nash, whose life inspired the Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind, has died in a car crash in New Jersey on Sunday, local media reported.
Nash, 86, and his wife Alicia, 82, were both killed when their taxi crashed on the New Jersey Turnpike, the reports said.
Russell Crowe, who played Nash in the film version of his life, said he was "stunned".
"An amazing partnership," he tweeted. "Beautiful minds, beautiful hearts."
Nash was awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize for Economics for his landmark work on the mathematics of game theory, which examines the rivalries among competitors with mixed interests.
His findings have been widely applied by business strategists.
Earlier this week, he won the Abel Prize for his contributions to the study of partial differential equations.
Based on Sylvia Nasar’s 1998 biography of the same name, A Beautiful Mind won an Academy Award for Best Picture in 2002.
It portrays the brilliant professor's long struggle with schizophrenia.
