媒体来源:
英国每日邮报
连结:
http://tinyurl.com/oua2ca6
完整新闻标题:
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
"美丽境界"已经完成了他的最高杰作?
数学家纳许在车祸身亡数天前告诉他的友人
已导出了一个可以取代爱因斯坦著名理论的等式.
完整新闻内文:
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.
纳许与妻子上周车祸双亡的三天前告知友人
已发现一个可以取代爱因斯坦相对论的等式
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.
获奖的数学家Cédric Villani表示纳许纳许死前三天
跟他解释过自己的工作成果与相对论的关系.
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.
纳许主张他的发现将可以更好地解释量子重力学说
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).
(上面大概在解释纳许的生平和获奖以及爱因斯坦相对论所以就不翻了)