CNN CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow May 24, 2015 18:06:00
The 2001 oscar-winning film "a beautiful mind." the movie focused on his work on game theory and his long-time struggle with schizophrenia. >> you can't reason your way out of this? >> reporter: russell crowe won a golden globe for his portrayal of a character loosely based on nash. >> you have to divide nash from your regular mathematician. he's beyond that in his thought process. he looks at a series of figures, he knows the answer. the hardest thing for nash is proving it to his fellow mathematicians. >> reporter: crowe tweeted, "stunned. my heart goes out to john and aestablishia and famil...