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NEW YORK. The Nobel laureate John Nash, one of the great mathematicians of the twentieth century and whose anti-schizophrenia inspired the movie “A Beautiful Mind,” died Saturday in a taxi accident with his wife.

Police said today the State of New Jersey (USA), the accident occurred when the driver lost control while trying to overtake another vehicle He finished hitting against a guardrail and another car.

Nash, 86, and his wife, 82, apparently were not wearing their seatbelts and were thrown out of the taxi and died on the spot, according to authorities.

The taxi driver was rescued from the vehicle and taken with injuries not life-threatening at Robert Wood University Hospital in the city of New Brunswick, about 65 kilometers south of New York.

Nash received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994 for his “Theory of Games” and is considered one of the most brilliant mathematicians of the twentieth century, among other things, its progress in applying mathematical tools to other areas .

This year was distinguished with Louis Nirenberg with the Abel Prize, considered the “Nobel” of mathematics, for his studies in the area of ​​the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations.

However, for the general public Nash will always be the inspiration for A Beautiful Mind , the film known as A Beautiful Mind in Spain and as A Beautiful Mind in Latin America, winner of four Oscars in 2002.

The film, directed by Ron Howard and starring Russell Crowe, traces the life of Nash, from its beginnings as a child prodigy mathematics until his fall into the abyss of the hand of schizophrenia and subsequent recovery.

“Stunned … my heart is with John and Alicia and family. An amazing marriage. Wonderful minds, wonderful hearts, “Crowe reacted to the news via Twitter.

The son of an electrical engineer and a teacher, Nash was born in 1928 in Bluefield, West Virginia (USA) and Quickly he distinguished himself by his intellectual ability, getting scholarships to study at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh and then at Princeton.

There, published just 21 years old his famous thesis, he shot his fame among the academic community and led him to the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the RAND military technology company.

At the same time, the turmoil in his personal life began with a brief romance that a child was born in 1953 and, according to a biography, with several homosexual and an arrest for indecent exposure.

Nash’s mental problems were evident in the late fifties, shortly after marrying origin researcher Salvadoran Alicia Lardé and when the mathematician was only 30 years.

Diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1959, he spent long hospitalized seasons, was treated with electric shock therapy, fled for a time to Europe and lost years amid paranoia.
Although divorced him in 1963, Alicia Nash always he stood by the genius and in 1970 took him to live in his house, where he gradually began to overcome the disease.

Nash managed to recover, returned to teaching, awarded the Nobel and finally in 2001, the couple remarried.

In recent decades, both devoted much of his time to draw attention about mental illness, which also affected his son John, who followed in the footsteps of his father as a mathematician.