By Jenny Stanton For Mailonline. The 'Beautiful Mind' mathematician who died along with his wife in a car crash last week had told a friend he had discovered a replacement equation for Einstein's theory of relativity just three days earlier. John Forbes Nash Jr. Scroll down for video.

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Nash shares memories of Albert Einstein discussions
Nash was always on the lookout for problems. It showed a tremendous amount of ambition. On one occasion, not long after his arrival at Princeton, he went to see Einstein and sketched some ideas he had for amending quantum theory. A Beautiful Mind.
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Nobel Prize -winning mathematician John Nash and his wife, Alicia, shown in , were killed in a taxi crash on the New Jersey Turnpike on Saturday, police say. He was a solitary figure, tormented by paranoia and subject to strange delusions. He once declined an appointment to the faculty at the University of Chicago, saying he was about to be named Emperor of Antarctica. But John Forbes Nash Jr. Nash, 86, and his wife, Alicia, 82, died Saturday in a traffic accident on the New Jersey turnpike. The taxi in which they were passengers hit a guardrail near Monroe Township, a spokesman for the New Jersey State Police said. While Nash was famous among mathematicians for sophisticated solutions to a variety of problems involving algebraic geometry and partial differential equations, he was more widely known for his work in economics. His Nobel Prize in economics was for his contributions to game theory, a discipline that has become fundamental to the study of the field and a crucial aid in high-stakes contests such as arms talks, trade negotiations, and elections.