媒體來源:
英國每日郵報
連結:
http://tinyurl.com/oua2ca6
完整新聞標題:
Had the Beautiful Mind just done its finest work? Mathematician Nash told
friends he had devised an equation to replace Einstein’s famous theory just
DAYS before he died in car crash
"美麗境界"已經完成了他的最高傑作?
數學家納許在車禍身亡數天前告訴他的友人
已導出了一個可以取代愛因斯坦著名理論的等式.
完整新聞內文:
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.
納許與妻子上週車禍雙亡的三天前告知友人
已發現一個可以取代愛因斯坦相對論的等式
John Forbes Nash Jr., whose struggle with schizophrenia was chronicled in the
2001 movie A Beautiful Mind starring Russell Crowe, died aged 86 on May 23.
Award-winning mathematician Cédric Villani said Nash had explained the work
on Einstein's theory to him three days before his death.
獲獎的數學家Cédric Villani表示納許納許死前三天
跟他解釋過自己的工作成果與相對論的關係.
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.
納許主張他的發現將可以更好地解釋量子重力學說
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.
Known as brilliant and eccentric, Nash was associated with Princeton
University for many years, most recently serving as a senior research
mathematician.
He won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1994 for his work in game theory,
which offered insight into the dynamics of human rivalry. It is considered
one of the most influential ideas of the 20th century.
Just a few days ago, Nash had received a prize from the Norwegian Academy of
Sciences and Letters in Oslo.
In addition to the Nobel, Nash won the John von Neumann Theory Prize (1978)
and the American Mathematical Society's Steele Prize for a Seminal
Contribution to Research (1999).
(上面大概在解釋納許的生平和獲獎以及愛因斯坦相對論所以就不翻了)