Can you go insane from trying to solve a hard problem with no luck?

yeah sure whatever

>>7946950
i'm him

>>7946948
There's one mathematician, whom I forget the name of, who killed himself after being driven mad whilst working on a problem involving infinity. Pre' cool story.

>>7946952
Liar
I'd left the word on out in >>7946950

Love you buddy >>7946952

>>7946953
particularly interested in mathematicians. Are mental disorders more prevalent among them?
>inb4 autist jokes

>>7946976
ya

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>>7946953
Cantor did not kill himself, however he did end up in a sanatorium at the time of his death. He had suffered throughout his life from bouts of severe mental illness and was subsequently hospitalised disrupting his work. He died from a heart attack.

If you are referring to Ludwig Boltzmann, then he was a physicist and in fact did hang himself while on a holiday with his wife and daughter.

>>7946976
This gets asked here quite frequently, and at present, the answer is likely to be yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity_and_mental_illness
>Albert Einstein had a son with schizophrenia and was also somewhat schizotypal and eccentric.

>>7946993
Wow, I had hair beard and mustache just like that once. Strange af.

>>7947027
How is that strange
You obviously cant think for yourself and that's a very traditional autism look
I know a guy who looks strikingly similar to that picture and he never stops rocking back and forth

>>7947042
Well we also appear to have moderately similar chin, jawline, and eyebrows.
It's strange because I don't see many people who look like me.

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>>7946993
Was Boltzmann being ironic?

>>7947042
This is a nice board. Don't bully.

>>7947027
What are the chances.

>>7946993
Boltzmann was on a holiday with his wife and daughter, told them to go swimming and said he'd be there soon. Then he hanged himself, best holiday ever. I wonder if his daughter got so traumatized she couldn't swim ever again.

>>7947089
Pretty slim. I've never seen anyone who looks as much like me as that guy

>>7947051
that's because you don't get out enough you fucking autist

>>7946976
Nothing scientific but from personal experience the more theoretical the science gets the more introverted the people studying it.

Geography->Biology->Chemistry->Physics->Maths