Farewell John Nash Jr,” he said. Nash was born in Bluefield, West Virginia on June 13, 1928 to John, an electrical engineer, and his wife, Virginia, a former school teacher.

John Nash, the Nobel Prize winner who inspired the film A Beautiful Mind, has been killed in a car accident along with his wife in New Jersey. He was 86.

John Nash, 86, the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician whose life story was told in the film A Beautiful Mind, died in a car crash over the weekend, along with his 82-year-old wife, Alicia.

University mathematician John Nash was named an Abel Prize winner by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters on Wednesday. He shared the honor with a colleague, Louis Nirenberg, who was formerly ...