How to Die Like a Mathematician
Celebrating bizarre deaths of great mathematicians
By Daniel Lee
Cardano, Girolamo (1501 - 1507)
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.
was a serious fortuneteller. When death did not strike him on the day of his prediction, he gulped down a glass of poison to fulfill his prophesy. [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>
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