John Forbes Nash Jr.

John Forbes Nash Jr. June 13, 1928 – May 23, 2015 was an American mathematician who shown fundamental contributions to game theory, differential geometry, as well as the discussing of partial differential equations. Nash's make-up has presented insight into the factors that govern chance & decision-making inside complex systems found in everyday life.

His theories are widely used in economics. Serving as a senior research mathematician at Princeton University during the later factor of his life, he shared the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with game theorists Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi. In 2015, he also divided up the Abel Prize with Louis Nirenberg for his realise on nonlinear partial differential equations. John Nash is the only grownup to be awarded both the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and the Abel Prize.

In 1959, Nash began showing clear signs of mental illness, and spent several years at psychiatric hospitals being treated for schizophrenia. After 1970, his assumption slowly improved, allowing him to good to academic work by the mid-1980s. His struggles with his illness and his recovery became the basis for Sylvia Nasar's biographical book A Beautiful Mind in 1998, as well as a film of the same name directed by Ron Howard, in which Nash was portrayed by actor Russell Crowe.

Death

On May 23, 2015, Nash and his wife died in a car accident on the New Jersey Turnpike most Exit 8A in Monroe Township, NJ. They were on their way domestic from Newark Airport after a visit to Norway, where Nash had received the Abel Prize, when their taxicab driver, Tarek Girgis, lost rule of the vehicle and struck a guardrail. Both passengers were ejected from the car upon impact. State police revealed that it appeared neither passenger was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash. At the time of his death, the 86-year-old Nash was a longtime resident of New Jersey. He was survived by two sons, John Charles Martin Nash, who lived with his parents at the time of their death, and elder child John Stier.

Following his death, obituaries appeared in scientific and popular media throughout the world. In addition to their obituary for Nash, The New York Times published an article containing quotes from Nash that had been assembled from media and other published sources. The quotes consisted of Nash's reflections on his life and achievements.