The 'Beautiful Mind' mathematician who died was on the brink of making a ground-breaking discovery.

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7. "There’s nothing secret about the equation Nash was studying," Villani told the Daily News.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/john-nash-tweaked-theory-relativity-death-article-1.2241346

Mathematician John Nash spoke of tweaking Einstein’s theory of relativity days before death
BY Rachelle Blidner /
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS /
Published: Saturday, May 30, 2015, 6:07 PM
/ Updated: Saturday, May 30, 2015, 10:42 PM

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“There’s nothing secret about the equation Nash was studying,” French mathematician Cédric Villani told the Daily News.

Nash, 86, had been working on a modified equation for general relativity — which describes movement relative to space and time — for decades, Villani said. Nash even discussed his ideas with Einstein in the ’50s, but their talk was “not productive.”

The Nobel Prize winner “thought he had a better model” for the theory first devised in 1916, said Villani, a Fields Medal winner.

There are some discrepancies between the theory of relativity and other areas of physics, Villani said.

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