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

Robbert Dijkgraaf, John Nash's Princeton colleague, discusses his legacy.

05/23/2015 | Rating NR

PBS News Hour

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

Clip: 5/23/2015 | 4m 27s

Robbert Dijkgraaf, John Nash's Princeton colleague, discusses his legacy.

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.

05/23/2015 | Rating NR

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