The 'Beautiful Mind' mathematician who died was on the brink of making a ground-breaking discovery.
Nash and his wife Alicia, 82, were killed in a taxi crash in New Jersey in the US last week.
A colleague who had received an award with Nash in Norway earlier in the week said they had just flown home and the couple had taken a cab from the airport.
But now it's been revealed that Nash was on the brink of making a ground-breaking discovery.
Villani told The Times: 'He explained it to me. He thought he had discovered a replacement for the equation.'
He also said Nash claimed his replacement would help further explain quantum gravity.
Einstein's theory of relativity, published in the early 20th century, explains that what we perceive as gravity arises from the curvature of space and time
In an interview with The Times, Mr Villani described his colleague as “really inspirational” and said that Nash believed his new work would help explain quantum gravity.
Einstein’s famous and influential theory of relativity was published 100 years ago
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“He explained it to me. He thought he had discovered a replacement for the equation,” Mr Villani told The Times.
Nash, 86, and his wife, Alicia, 82, were both killed in a taxi accident in New Jersey in the US last weekend, while on the way home from the airport.
The pair had just returned from Norway, where Nash had received a prize from the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters in Oslo. Neither was wearing a seatbelt.
Post was a composite of what I could find on this news
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/science/article4455395.ece
http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/had-beautiful-mind-john-nash-discovered-his-finest-work/story-fn5fsgyc-1227376460233
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9dric_Villani
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Had only two references
One of which was his own paper............... think about that.
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