Forgot to say, that he died in a taxi ride on his return from Norway after getting the Abel Prize. This is a lifetime award that should be thought of as a Nobel Prize for math. There is no Nobel Prize for math. He shared this award with Nirenberg, who flew back from Norway with Nash and his wife from Norway. So tragic.
I’m surprised that Nash never won the Fields Medal. What is the story, if any, behind that oversight? Some of my friends in mathematics think more of his work in math than the work he did in game theory that led (eventually) to his Nobel Prize in economics.