TIL that the great mathematician and logician Kurt Gödel, famous for his incompleteness theorems, refused to eat anything not cooked by his wife out of fear of poisoning and died of starvation when she was hospitalized and unable to cook for him.

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[–]Questionable 8 insightful - 6 fun8 insightful - 5 fun9 insightful - 6 fun -  (1 child)

So... He was afraid he was going to poison himself????

[–]magnora7 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Or his wife made all his meals so much he literally had no idea how to make any food at all to the point he starved over it, lol.

Neither of those explanations really makes sense. The guy was either killed, or so far off his nut that he killed himself, is what I can make of it

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 5 fun3 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Can figure out Godels Incompleteness Theorem but can't figure out how to eat, smh

[–]goobandit 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

never marry a mama’s boy