Tragic Deaths

I've noticed that the Physicists and Mathematicians that I'm most interested left this earth in an untimely manner. They all committed suicide or what amounted to suicide.

Paul Ehrenfest shot himself and his son on Sept 25, 1933. He was known as a wonderful teacher the best in his field according to Albert Einstein. He encouraged international physics community by encouraging people to come to Leiden, and encouraging his students to study abroad.

Yutaka Taniyama was a Mathematician he killed himself at the age of 31. His suicide note says a lot about his mind. He was also depressed at the time of his death. He was criticized for his revolutionary idea about automorphic properties of L-functions of elliptic curves over any number field. A refined version was later used to prove Fermat's Last Theorem. The conjecture is now called the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture.

Évariste Galois was a budding Mathematician and contributed greatly to group theory. His idea of the permutation group was used to illuminate the relation between roots of polynomials of degree 4 and less. It also proved why there are no general solutions greater than 4. He died in a dual during the turbulent times that was France in the 1800s.

Later.