John Nash’s Nobel medal to be auctioned off in New York

The Nobel economics prize medal that U.S. mathematician John Nash (1928-2015), the real model of the movie "A Beautiful Mind," received in 1994, will be put on auction. According to NPR on Sunday, the medal would be auctioned at Sotheby’s in New York on Monday.

Nash is a co-winner of the Nobel prize who was honored for predicting human interactions through the non-cooperative game theory, together with John Harsanyi of the U.S. and Reinhard Selten of Germany. Sotheby’s predicts that the Nobel medal will be sold for 2.5 million U.S. dollars to 4 million dollars.

Nash did not have a peaceful life while alive because he suffered from schizophrenia. The movie "A Beautiful Mind," which was released in 2001, describes the life of the great mathematician, who made astonishing achievement in mathematics and economics despite illness from schizophrenia. He and his wife died in a traffic accident last year. His bereaved family reportedly put the medal on auction.

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