Nash was 'genius of a different kind,' colleague says

Name: Nash was 'genius of a different kind,' colleague says
Uploaded: 2015-05-24T21:04:58Z
Duration: P267S
Description: John Nash, the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician whose life story was the subject of the Academy Award-winning film "A Beautiful Mind" died Saturday in a taxi crash. Nash's colleague and friend Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in New Jersey, joins Hari Sreenivasan.

Clip: 05/23/2015 | 4m 27s

John Nash, the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician whose life story was the subject of the Academy Award-winning film "A Beautiful Mind" died Saturday in a taxi crash. Nash's colleague and friend Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in New Jersey, joins Hari Sreenivasan.

Aired: 05/23/15

Rating: NR

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Nash was 'genius of a different kind,' colleague says

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