John Forbes Nash Jr. Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
John Nash was born on June 13, 1928 in Bluefield Sanitarium, Bluefield, West Virginia, USA as John Forbes Nash Jr. He was married to Alicia Nash. He died on May 23, 2015 in Monroe Township, New Jersey, USA.
May 23, 2015, Monroe Township, New Jersey, United States
Place Of Birth
Bluefield Sanitarium, Bluefield, West Virginia, USA
Height
6' 1" (1.85 m)
Profession
Mathematician, Author
Education
Princeton University, Carnegie Mellon College of Engineering, Bluefield College, Bluefield High School
Nationality
American
Spouse
Alicia Nash
Children
John David Stier, John Charles Martin Nash
Parents
John Forbes Nash, Margaret Virginia Martin
Siblings
Martha Nash
Awards
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Abel Prize, John von Neumann Theory Prize, Leroy P. Steele Prize
Star Sign
Gemini
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Quote
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Alicia was in a class that I was teaching. I think it was advanced calculus. She, of course, was one of the few girls that attracted my attention. But as she was, she didn't do well in the class; she had done better in other courses. But she sort of managed to cultivate my attention and so we began to get involved. I don't remember all the details. Of course, this sort of thing is in a way what is not supposed to happen. But of course it does happen to teachers and students. It's just a way you may meet people. Otherwise you don't meet enough.
2
In grade school, I would be doing arithmetic, and I found myself working with larger numbers than other students would be using. I would have several digits, and they would have maybe two or three digits. I would do multiplication and basic operation, but with larger numbers.
3
You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers. A movie, by the way, was made - sort of a small-scale offbeat movie - called Pi recently. I think it starts off with a big string of digits running across the screen, and then there are people who get concerned with various things, and in the end this Bible code idea comes up. And that ties in with numbers, so the relation to numbers is not necessarily scientific, and even when I was mentally disturbed, I had a lot of interest in numbers.
He was nominated for the 2016 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts and Letters category.
4
According to the Adam Curtis' Documentary "The Trap: What happened to our dream of freedom?", the theories of John Nash were applied unsuccessfully by a man named Alain Enthoeven in both Vietnam and the British Public Sector Services.
5
John and Alicia Nash were killed in a car accident on May 23, 2015, when the driver of a taxi in which they were passengers lost control of the car and collided with a guard rail and a second car on the New Jersey Turnpike. The New York times said that although the two drivers suffered only minor injures, the Nashes were "ejected from the cab and pronounced dead at the scene"; John was 86 and Alicia was 82.
6
John Forbes Nash passed away on May 23, 2015, a month away from what would have been his 87th birthday on June 13.
7
Resided in Princeton, New Jersey with his wife Alicia Nash until they were killed in an automobile accident on May 23, 2015.
8
Is not the only legendary genius named John Nash to have suffered from a psychological disorder. The British architect John Nash, among whose greatest works were Buckingham Palace and the Royal Pavillion at Brighton, suffered from high-functioning autism.
9
Sons: John David Stier (born June 19, 1953) by Eleanor Stier; John Charles Martin Nash (born May 20, 1959) by wife Alicia. John David Stier became a nurse (his mother's profession); John Charles Martin Nash became a mathematician, but, like his father, was diagnosed a paranoid schizophrenic.
10
Son John Charles Martin remained nameless for a year because Alicia, having just committed Nash to a mental hospital, felt that he should have a say in what to name the baby. As was his parents, John grew up to be a mathematician, but, like his father, he was diagnosed a paranoid schizophrenic.
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According to Sylvia Nasar's biography of Nash, Alicia allowed him to live with her again in 1970 - seven years after she divorced him - but as a boarder. After he won the Nobel Prize in 1994, they renewed their relationship.
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Fox: A Documentary
2016
Video documentary in memory of
Book of the Senseless
2015
Short in memory of
The Prisoners Dilemma
2012
Short special thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
NHK supesharu
2009
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom
2007
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
A Beautiful Mind: Meeting John Nash
2002
Video documentary short
Himself
Inside a Writer's Mind: A Conversation with Akiva Goldsman
2002
Video documentary short
Himself
American Experience
2002
TV Series documentary
Himself
60 Minutes
2002
TV Series documentary
Himself - Mathematician (segment "John Nash's Beautiful Mind")
Inside a Beautiful Mind
2002
TV Special short documentary
Himself
Schizophrenia: Stolen Minds, Stolen Lives
2000
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
The 78th Annual Academy Awards
2006
TV Special
Himself (as John Forbes Nash)
60 Minutes
2002
TV Series documentary
Himself - Mathematician (segment "John Nash's Beautiful Mind")
Murphy Brown
1989
TV Series
Himself / opening credits
Known for movies
Inside a Beautiful Mind (2002) as Himself
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (2007) as Himself
A Beautiful Mind: Meeting John Nash (2002) as Himself
Inside a Writer's Mind: A Conversation with Akiva Goldsman (2002) as Himself
$1.4 Million
