> Increasingly paranoid in his later years, he refused to eat food that was not cooked by his wife, and died of starvation in 1978

genius often comes with side effects

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e28eta a day ago | parent | next [-]

This extra detail makes the story even sadder, imo:

> Following Adele's admission to hospital after suffering a stroke in late 1977, Gödel refused to eat in her absence; he weighed 29 kilograms (65 lb) when he died of "malnutrition and inanition caused by personality disturbance" in Princeton Hospital on January 14, 1978

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Gödel#Personal_life_and_d...

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Aboutplants a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The line between Genius and Crazy is but hairs width

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Bayart a day ago | parent | prev [-]

My favourite end-of-life weirdo has to be Grothendieck.

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QuesnayJr a day ago | parent [-]

There is a similar project to digitize and analyze Grothendieck's notes and letters.

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programd a day ago | parent [-]

There was also a project to catalog and prove all the theorems in Ramanujan's notebooks. There's a book series by Bruce C. Berndt which covers the 5 notebooks:

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Bruce-C.-Berndt/author/B001HN3...

It would be interesting to point Fable or Argon at the notebooks and see if they can find some interesting new material in or based on this work.

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		Since Ramanujan's notebook has gotten a lot of attention since the 70s, I was wondering if there was anything left for AI to find. Someone should try it.