John Forbes Nash, Jr. - A Beautiful Mind will be remembered forever

John Nash Nobel Laureate

John Forbes Nash, Jr. who died on May 23, 2015 had been a great American Mathematician.He did a lot of work in Mathematics, specially on game theory.He is known for Nash equilibrium, Nash embedding theorem, Nash functions, Nash–Moser theorem. He won many awards in his life including John von Neumann Theory Prize(1978), Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1994), Abel Prize (2015).

He authored a book Essays on Game Theory. A Beautiful Mind (1998) is the biography of  John Forbes Nash, Jr. by Sylvia Nasar, professor of journalism at Columbia University. 

On May 23, 2015, At the age of 86, He died in a road accident. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday condoled the death of noted mathematician John Nash, saying the "intellectual powerhouse" will be remembered forever.