A Beautiful Mind mathematician John Nash and his wife killed in New Jersey taxi crash

The Daily Mail reports:

John Nash, the mathematician made famous in the 2001 movie A Beautiful Mind has been killed in a taxi crash in New Jersey.

Princeton University professor Nash, 86, and his 82-year-old wife Alicia were both killed when their taxi crashed while travelling south on the New Jersey Turnpike.

The driver allegedly lost control during an overtaking manoeuvre and hit the guard rail. He survived with non-life threatening injuries.

A tragedy.