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Two years after parents' death, son of 'A Beautiful Mind' John Nash' has one regret
WEST WINDSOR -- Two years ago, the world mourned John and Alicia Nash, the renowned mathematician immortalized by the Oscar-winning film,A Beautiful Mind, and his wife when they died in a car accident on the New Jersey Turnpike.
But the people closest to the couple understood the tragedy cut far deeper than the loss of the Nobel-prize winner and the woman whose devotion ensured Nash was treated for schizophrenia.
The Nashes left behind their son, John Charles Nash, who inherited both his father's genius and his mental illness. With his parents ripped from his life, friends and colleagues anxiously wondered: what will happen to "Johnny?"
A little more than two years later, John Nash continues to live in the modest two-story house facing the Princeton Junction train station parking lot in West Windsor, his home for 45 of his 58 years. The voices and visual hal
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Deep grief of John Nash's family: Distraught son of Beautiful Mind mathematician who also suffers from schizophrenia now alone at family home
The son of Beautiful Mind mathematician John Nash was spotted Monday for the first time since the death of his mother and father.
John Charles Martin Nash, who goes by Johnny, was seen looking disheveled outside the family home in Princeton, New Jersey after reportedly returning from making plans for his parents' funerals.
Johnny, like his famous father, suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.
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Tragedy: John Charles Martin Nash (above with his father John in a photo from a 2012 Discovery special) was spotted outside his family home in Princeton, New Jersey on Monday
Gone: It is the first time the 55-year-old son of John and Alicia Nash (above in 2012) has been seen since their tragic death on Saturday
Family home: Johnny lived with his parents in Princeton, New Jersey, near where his father worked
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"Beautiful Mind" John Nash's Schizophrenia "Disappeared" as He Aged
Mathematician John Nash, who died May 23 in a car accident, was known for his decades-long battle with schizophrenia—a struggle famously depicted in the 2001 Oscar-winning rulle "A Beautiful Mind." Nash had apparently recovered from the disease later in life, which he said was done without medication.
But how often do people recover from schizophrenia, and how does such a destructive disease disappear?
Nash developed symptoms of schizophrenia in the late 1950s, when he was around age 30, after he made groundbreaking contributions to the field of mathematics, including the extension of game theory, or the math of decision making. He began to exhibit bizarre behavior and experience paranoia and delusions, according to The New York Times. Over the next several decades, he was hospitalized several times, and was on and off anti-psychotic medications.
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