I. Turing
This is the most famous scientist, the father of computer science and the pioneer of artificial intelligence. The development of human information society is inseparable from Turing's contribution. Turing is gay. Because of this, he was wronged in an incident at 1952 and was convicted by the British police. The police asked Turing to choose jail or hormone injection, and Turing chose the latter.
However,1June 7, 954, Turing died at home, leaving an apple with a poisonous cyanide in it, and took a bite at the bedside; There is a saying about the origin of the American Apple LOGO. 20 13 On February 24th, the Queen of England publicly apologized to Turing, a great man, and admitted that Turing's judgment at that time was unfair.
Second, galois.
Although Galois, a mathematical genius, died in a duel and was killed by him, it was actually the same as suicide, because the duel was gone and never came back. This mathematical genius, who was only 19 years old, solved two of the three major problems in ancient Greece, solved a mathematical conjecture of Gauss about ruler drawing at that time, and created group theory. Unfortunately, at the age of 2 1, he was involved in an immature emotional dispute and died at the gunpoint of others.
Third, Boltzmann
Austrian physicist, the founder of statistical mechanics, put forward Boltzmann entropy formula, which occupies a very important position in thermodynamics and has a great influence on philosophy. The argument between Boltzmann and his colleagues was so fierce that it even turned into an academic struggle, which seriously affected Boltzmann's mental health and eventually committed suicide because of his loneliness and illness.
Fourth, Yutaka Taniyama.
You may not be familiar with this name, but you know Fermat's last theorem, right? Andrew wiles, a British mathematician, was the last person to solve Fermat's Last Theorem, but wiles successfully proved Fermat's Last Theorem on the basis of "Taniyama-Zhicun conjecture".
Among them, the "Taniyama-Zhicun conjecture" was studied by Yutaka Taniyama and another mathematician. Yutaka Taniyama committed suicide five days before 3 1 birthday, and there are different opinions about the reasons for suicide.
Verb (abbreviation of verb) cardano
If you know the solution of cubic equation, or the history of imaginary number, then you must have heard of cardano, because a formula missing cubic equation is named after him-Caldan formula.
As for the cause of cardano's suicide, the most popular saying is that cardano was an astrologer who predicted his own death date, but after the date, he showed no signs of death, so he chose to commit suicide in order to protect his reputation.