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Beautiful Mind' mathematician John Nash dies in crash. Story highlights. The life and work of John Forbes Nash Jr. A Beautiful Mind"Nash and his wife died Saturday in an auto accident in New Jersey. Nash, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1. Alicia, was 8. 2 (CNN)John Forbes Nash Jr., the Princeton University mathematician whose life inspired the film "A Beautiful Mind," and his wife died in a car crash Saturday, according to New Jersey State Police.

Nash, 8. 6, and Alicia Nash, 8. Monroe Township when the incident occurred, State Police Sgt. Class Gregory Williams said. They were traveling southbound in the left lane when the taxi went out of control while trying to pass another car, Williams said.

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The car crashed into the guard rail, and they were ejected from the vehicle. They were pronounced dead at the scene, Williams said.

The taxi driver, Tarek Girgis, was flown to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital with injuries not considered life- threatening. A passenger in the other car was transported to the hospital complaining of neck pain. No charges have been filed in the accident, which is still under investigation, Williams said. A woman 'essential to his survival'Nash, widely regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of the 2.

Alicia Nash, an MIT physics major from an aristocratic Salvadoran family, has been credited with saving his life after schizophrenia derailed his career in the 1. As the couple's biographer, Sylvia Nasar, wrote in the 1.

A Beautiful Mind," "It was Nash's genius .. That chapter of their relationship did not make it into the Hollywood version of their lives, the 2. Oscar- winning film "A Beautiful Mind" starring Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly. The film, which has been called "a piece of historical revisionism," also left out his child from a previous relationship and glossed over his reputation for being difficult to work with. But it drew accolades for its depiction of mental illness while bringing attention to Nash's accomplishments, which earned him the 1. Nobel Prize in Economics.

Nash called the film an "artistic" interpretation based on his life of how mental illness could evolve - - one that did not "describe accurately" the nature of his delusions or treatment. Unlike Crowe's character, who comes to rely on medication for treatment, Nash said in a 1. He spoke of mental illness as often having "an unfavorable course with history in the sense that people never really recovered to what you can call mentally well. They become what are called consumers of mental health organizations.

They are always taking some sort of a pill."News of the couple's deaths drew tributes from academia and Hollywood."We are stunned and saddened by news of the untimely passing of John Nash and his wife and great champion, Alicia. Both of them were very special members of the Princeton University community," Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber said. "John's remarkable achievements inspired generations of mathematicians, economists and scientists who were influenced by his brilliant, groundbreaking work in game theory, and the story of his life with Alicia moved millions of readers and moviegoers who marveled at their courage in the face of daunting challenges," Eisgruber added. RIP Brilliant #Nobel. Prize winning John Nash & and his remarkable wife Alicia.

It was an honor telling part of their story #ABeautiful. Mind," director Ron Howard tweeted.

Crowe expressed condolences to the family on Twitter, calling the couple an "amazing partnership" with "beautiful minds" and "beautiful hearts."Nash was born in 1. Bluefield, West Virginia, a former coal town in the Appalachian Mountains. The son of an engineer and a Latin teacher, he began showing signs of mathematical talent in elementary school. He was one of 1. 0 winners of the George Westinghouse Award, which got him a full scholarship to the Carnegie Institute of Technology, where he first earned the label genius, according to Nasar, his biographer. He so impressed one professor that his letter of recommendation for Princeton had just one line: "This man is a genius."Nash received his doctorate from Princeton in 1. In 1. 95. 1, he joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, where he met his future wife, Alicia Larde, a student in his advanced calculus class.

The daughter of a doctor, Larde's extended family "hobnobbed with the intelligentsia of El Salvador" before arriving in the United States in 1. One of 1. 6 women to enter the MIT class of 1. El Salvadoran princess with a sense of noblesse oblige."They became a couple after spending time together in the university's music library, where Larde worked.

He was very, very good looking, very intelligent," Alicia Nash told Nasar. It was a little bit of a hero worship thing." Nash began to experience what he called "the mental disturbances" in the early months of 1. Alicia Nash was pregnant, he wrote in his Nobel biography. Consequently, he resigned from his position as an MIT faculty member and spent 5.

Mc. Lean Hospital in Massachusetts. He spent the next few years in and out of hospitals, "always on an involuntary basis and always attempting a legal argument for release," he said - - despite Alicia Nash's efforts to keep him hospitalized. During periods of mental clarity, in which he was able to renounce his "delusional hypotheses," he returned to research that built his reputation as one of the most influential American mathematicians of his time. In addition to the Nobel, Nash received the John von Neumann Theory Prize in 1. American Mathematical Society's Steele Prize for a Seminal Contribution to Research (1.

Just last week, he was in Norway to accept the 2. Abel Prize for mathematical contributions with longtime colleague Louis Nirenberg. Nirenberg called Nash's death a "horrible loss" especially considering "the wonderful week" they had just shared."He was truly a great mathematician, a most remarkable mathematician," Nirenberg said. He made deep contributions with every paper he wrote.""His wife was also a wonderful person. She looked after him after all these years.

She was very special."The couple stayed together through it all, marrying for a second time in 2. We thought it would be a good idea," Alicia Nash said in a PBS documentary.

After all, we've been together most of our lives.".