The Death of a Mathematician

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1. Which mathematician, perhaps best known for his namesake coordinate system, can be said to have died from getting up too early in the morning? Georg Cantor Blaise Pascal Rene Descartes Pierre Fermat

2. Which mathematician, one of the first to describe the situations under which the solution to an equation can be written down exactly, was killed in a duel at the tender age of 20? Joseph Louis-Lagrange Neils Abel Evariste Galois Pierre Fermat

3. What man, discoverer of the (In)Completeness theorem for logical systems, managed to starve himself to death? Bertrand Russell Georg Cantor Alfred North Whitehead Kurt Gödel

4. What mathematician spent his final days defending Syracuse against the invading Romans, only to be killed by a soldier who supposedly saw him working out diagrams in the sand? Diophantus Archimedes Euclid Pythagoras

5. Which Norwegian Mathematician, who helped found group theory, died in poverty just days BEFORE receiving his first appointment in Berlin? Evariste Galois Jean-Augustin Cauchy Joseph Louis-Lagrange Neils Abel

6. Moving a bit further afield into POTENTIAL deaths, which mathematician, facing a trip across the storm-wracked North Sea in a rickety boat, sent a telegram ahead falsely claiming that he had solved the Riemann Hypothesis (one of the most important unsolved problems in mathematics)? Ramanujan Srinivasin Alfred North Whitehead G. H. Hardy Bertrand Russell

7. What mathematician, faced with the twin handicaps of being a woman in a man's world and a Pagan in a Christian nation, was finally murdered by a mob in 415 AD? Hippolyta Hippias Hypsicles Hypatia

8. What pioneer in the field of computer science and namesake of a test for artificial intelligence was found dead with a half-eaten, cyanide laced apple beside him? Blaise Pascal John Von Neumann Alan Turing Charles Babbage

9. What pioneer in the application of rigorous methods to political science was found dead of mysterious causes in a prison cell during the French reign of terror? Charles Marie de La Condamine Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat Condorcet Antoine Augustin Cournot Louis Couturat

10. What cofounder of the modern theory of games helped the U.S. military develop atomic and hydrogen bombs, only to die of brain cancer a few years later in 1957? Kurt Gödel Robert Oppenheimer Oskar Morgenstern John Von Neumann