alt Hacker News> 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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Aboutplants • yesterday at 7:41 PM
The line between Genius and Crazy is but hairs width
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...