John Nash was an American mathematician and professor who was born on June 13, 1928, in Bluefield, West Virginia, in the United States. His full name is John Forbes Nash Jr. and he was born to his parents John Forbes Nash and Margaret Virginia Nash. After completing his early education, he went on to take advanced mathematics courses at a local community college. Nash went on to attend Carnegie Institute of Technology with a George Westinghouse Scholarship. He graduated with a B.S. and M.S. in mathematics in 1948 before being awarded another scholarship to attend Princeton University where he continued studying mathematics. Nash would go on to be recognized as a leading contributor to game theory, differential geometry, and the study of partial differential equations. His work earned him a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994. Nash became a Senior Research Mathematician at Princeton University. He went on to become the only person to receive both the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and the Abel Prize.
Nash suffered from mental illness and spent several years in psychiatric hospitals where he was treated for paranoid schizophrenia. In 2001, his life story was turned into a film starring Russel Crowe called "A Beautiful Mind". Nash married Alicia Larde Lopez-Harrison in 1957 but both he and his wife were killed in a car accident on the New Jersey Turnpike in 2015 leaving behind two children.
| Net Worth 2021: | 1.5 million |
