The famous mathematician and economist John Forbes Nash, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his contribution to game theory, died in a car accident in New Jersey on May 23, as reported by the American network ABC.
According to the network, 87-year-old John Nash, 86, and his wife, Alicia, 82, were killed when the taxi in which they were riding crashed into a guardrail.
The Oscar-winning film "A wonderful person”, starring Russell Crowe, was based on the life of John Nash and her womanof him and the fight they fought for many years with schizophrenia from which he suffered.
John Forbes Nas (John Forbes Nash Jr.) (June 13, 1928 - May 23, 2015) was an American mathematician and economist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994, along with R. Zelten and J. Harsanyy for his contribution to game theory.
In particular, he created the concept of equilibrium for non-zero-sum games, an equilibrium he named the Nash equilibrium. The concept of Nash equilibrium is very important, especially nowadays, and it has a wide range applications in many areas of human activity, such as economic sciences, IT, Artificial Intelligence, politics but also in natural systems, such as Biology.
2015, John Forbes Nash, was honored with the Abel Prize together with Louis Nirenberg "for impressive and influential contributions to the theory of non-linear partial differential equations and their applications to geometrical analysis."
Nash suffered from schizophrenia from his 29, which he overcame after thirty years.
[tweet_embed id = 602468781911183360]With information from Wikipedia
