Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. 1930
Toward the end of his life, Gödel feared that he was being poisoned, and he starved himself to death. His theorem is one of the most extraordinary results in mathematics, or in any intellectual field in this century. If ever potential mental instability is detectable by genetic analysis, an embryo of someone with Kurt Gödel's gifts might be aborted.
source: Brian L. Silver (2000). “The Ascent of Science”, p.506, Oxford University Press, USA
topic: Theorems