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K9
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on: May 24, 2015, 04:44:15 PM

John Nash and wife died in the back of a taxi which crashed on the NJ Turnpike

Shamelessly lifted from reddit since it's a nice summary:

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This sucks. The guy was one of the smartest people alive.

He wrote three papers in two years that could have been nominated for and won the Nobel prize in the field of Economics. It's not even remotely hyperbolic to state that he is the foundation which modern day Game Theory is built upon. Solutions in non-cooperative game theory are noted as "Nash equilibria" he is that ubiquitous with the subject

Yet, that could be considered his second biggest achievement. He was decades ahead of his time when it comes to his work on encryption techniques and cryptology. He analysed the distinction between polynomial time and exponential time computation ten years before people realised it was the issue. A distinction that forms the basis of computational complexity theory. Additionally, he Proposed the Nash Embedding theory and Solved Hilbert's nineteenth problem which he probably should have won the fields medal for.

The world has lost a great, albeit troubled, mind today.

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Reply #1 on: May 24, 2015, 06:34:58 PM

Oh dang. I didn't even realize he was still alive - a name that big almost has to be historical. RIP.
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Reply #2 on: May 24, 2015, 08:00:16 PM

I didn't realize he was still alive either. So sad that it could have been prevented too. Everyone else involved was wearing seatbelts and walked away.  They were in the back of the cab and were ejected.  Rip.

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Reply #3 on: May 24, 2015, 09:11:41 PM

I didn't realize he was still alive either. So sad that it could have been prevented too. Everyone else involved was wearing seatbelts and walked away.  They were in the back of the cab and were ejected.  Rip.

Makes you understand why taxis in many places now prominently display  signs saying that seat belts are required for all passengers

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Reply #4 on: May 25, 2015, 07:39:39 PM

Horrible and sad.
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