Russell Crowe, who portrayed John Nash on the screen in A Beautiful Mind, remembers him and his wife Alicia, both killed in a car crash today.
The couple were in a taxi cab when the driver lost control and crashed into a guard rail on Saturday afternoon while driving on the New Jersey Turnpike, said Sgt. Gregory Williams, a spokesman for the New Jersey State Police.
Nash, 86, and his wife, Alicia, 82, were thrown from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene, Williams said.
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I arrived as an ordinary freshman at MIT in September of 1958. One of the first courses was introductory calculus. My section had John Nash as its instructor… [H]e would write on the board directly in front of himself and erase as he went along: I never saw what he wrote for more than a moment or so.