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 Boole: invented now logic, possibly accidentally killed by his wife making him sleep in cold wet sheets when he had pneumonia

Frege: invented new logic, late in life was shattered by a discovery of Russell's, wound up a sad angry anti-semite

Cantor: invented new logic, everyone hated him, severe depression, conspiracy theories

Godel: Godel

Lesson: don't study logic