Nobel Prize winning 'Beautiful Mind' mathematician John Nash and wife killed in car crash
Nobel Prize winner John Nash - AFP

Nobel prize-winning US mathematician John Nash, famously portrayed in the movie "A Beautiful Mind," was killed with his wife Alicia in New Jersey when a taxi they were riding in crashed, police said Sunday.


"The taxi passengers were ejected," Sergeant Gregory Williams told AFP, adding that they were both killed in the accident on Saturday. Nash was 86.