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Game theorist Nash, wife, die in taxi crash

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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 crash on the New Jersey Turnpike. He was 86.

Nash and Alicia Nash, 82, were killed in a taxi crash May 23, state police said.

Nash won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1994 for his work in game theory, which offered insight into the dynamics of human rivalry. It is considered one of the most influential ideas of the 20th century. (AP)

ノーベル賞数学者ジョン・ナッシュさん、事故死

映画『ビューティフル・マインド』のモデルになったノーベル経済学賞受賞者の米数学者ジョン・ナッシュさんと妻アリシアさんが5月23日、交通事故で死亡した。

The Japan Times ST: June 5, 2015