– Game Theory Pioneer John Nash, Wife, Killed In Taxi Crash (ZeroHedge, May 24, 2015):
The world lost one of its truly beautiful minds this Saturday, when a taxi carrying John Nash, 86, and his wife of nearly 60 years, Alicia, crashed on the New Jersey Turnpike. The two were killed on the spot 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 according to NJ.com.John Forbes Nash, Jr, was best known recently for the 2001 movie starting Russell Crowe”A Beautiful Mind” which depicted his struggles with schizophrenia. His biggest accomplishment was his groundbreaking and pioneering work on game theory. His thesis contained the definition and properties of what is now known as the “Nash equilibrium” – a crucial concept in non-cooperative games, it won Nash the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994.…