Mathematician Monday
Kurt Gödel
Despite his being the greatest logician of the 20th century, Gödel ironically suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. Even in the middle of winter, he would leave all the windows of his house open as he thought unseen villians were trying to kill him with poisoned gas. He also believed the invisible enemies were poisoning his food, so he refused to eat anyone's but his wife's cooking, not even his own. Even when his wife grew ill and was incapacitated in the hospital, Gödel still refused to eat anything prepared by anyone else and consequently died of starvation in 1978.
Gödel is most famous for his incompleteness theorems.
posted by Paula @ 3:05 PM
4 comments
4 Comments:
He's my goddamn hero. (I can do that with my eyes too.)
The whole death by starvation does have the ring of 'romantic hero' but I'm pretty sure Godel was just tragically crazy.
That's so sad!
I always have a hard time believing you when you talk about eccentric men of physics and mathematics.
oh it's all true baby
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