How to Die Like a Mathematician
Celebrating bizarre deaths of great mathematicians
By Daniel Lee
Cardano, Girolamo (1501 - 1507)
Caradano was a devote fortuneteller, and when he found himself of health on a day of his predicted death, he drank a glass of poison and killed himself
The clock ticked
and its hand hit.
The hour of his prediction
for his time in perdition.
But, health was still with him!
No strife with death for his life;
he was full of hype!
His rep as a fortuneteller was on the line,
(though he still was a mathematical one of a kind.)
Without asking for mercy,
he lifted his glass of poison, and gulp;
he had fulfill his prophecy. [1]
Galois, Évariste (1811 - 1832) was shot in the abdomen in a duel with Perscheux d'Herbinville (possible cause of duels are blindfolds of love, a scratch in his political pride, or a mess with the police)
References
[1] Goodwin, Jennifer. "Gerolamo Cardano 1501 - 1576". <http://www.math.wichita.edu/history/men/cardano.html>
[2] Évariste Galois From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89variste_Galois>
Last Edited: 2013 Jan 10
