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When Kurt Gödel (1906–78) was four years old, his family called him Herr Warum ("Mr. Why") because he asked so many questions. Einstein referred to him as "the greatest logician since Aristotle." But in 1971, at age 71, Gödel starved himself to death; he had been overtaken by an ingrained fear that someone was poisoning his food, the culmination of decades of mental illness. Between these two poles, the theoretical mathemati...Log In or Sign Up to Read More