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John F. Nash Jr., the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician who was best known to the general public as the subject of A Beautiful Mind, the bestselling book by Sylvia Nasar that was adapted into an Oscar-winning film, died Saturday in a taxi crash, the New York Times reported. He was 86."The narrative of Dr. Nash's brilliant rise, the lost years when his world dissolved in schizophrenia, his return to rationality and the awarding of the Nobel... captured the public mind and became a symbol of the destructive force of mental illness and the stigma that often hounds those who suffer from it," the Times noted.
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