Comment by jorgenveisdal

Galois - shot in duel. Turing - committed suicide by cyanide-laced apple. Boltzmann - committed suicide while on vacation. Gödel - died from starvation and exhaustion. Cantor - died from starvation in an insane asylum. Ramanujan - died from malnutrition. de Moivre - predicted the day of his death by calculating his sleep cycle. Lie - became insane and attacked his friends. Erdös - did amphetamines all his life. Nash - was legally insane for 30 years. Perelman - refuses contact with anyone except his mother. Grothendieck - refused contact with anyone. Kaczynski - serving a life sentence in maximum security prison.