“How can a man so genius be so stubborn!” This line from the biography of Gödel perfectly summarises the personality. The man shook the world of math by proving how formal systems contain truths that can never be proven. Yet, he refused medical treatment consistently and died in the end of starvation. He also believed a world beyond the physical world that human intuition directly sensed, perhaps which is what partly drove his delusions that doctors were trying to poison him. The #book# is extremely well written. The author weaves stories of Austro-Hungarian empire, Vienna and World War 2 alongside. You get feel the infectious energy of the Vienna Circle and get to know famous philosophers, mathematicians and scientists along the way. I strongly recommend reading this biography, if you can get hands on a copy. It’s a beautiful book detailing life of a tragic genius!