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== Anime and Manga ==
* While he's not crazy in the usual sense, Daichi/Bastion Misawa of [[Yu-Gi-Oh GX]] does snap a bit more... strangely... during the White Society arc in season 2. The way he snaps out of it [[Brain Bleach|ain't pretty]]. His going insane was canonically because [[Small Name, Big Ego|people weren't worshiping him as the brightest guy around anymore]], but the snap back (which involved stripping, and then racing around in his birthday suit) was indeed, induced by math. As a side note, before the [[Freak
* Moriaki-sensei from ''[[Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru]]'' looks like your average [[Stern Teacher]] at first, but he takes Mathematics ''way'' too seriously.
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* In the sitcom ''Committed'', this is a [[Defied Trope]] for Nate, who comes from a family of geniuses who tend to eventually go insane. Though he studied physics at Yale, he works in a used record store in an effort to avoid his relatives' fate. It's only partially successful.
* Averted in [[Eureka]]. Most of the characters can write out and understand chalkboard-length mathematical formulas, and most of them are sane. Though, this is Eureka we're talking about.
* The Doctor from ''[[
{{quote| "Any number that reduces to one when you take the sum of the square of its digits and continue iterating it until it yields 1 is a happy number, any number that doesn't, isn't. A happy prime is both happy and prime. Now *type it in*! I dunno, talk about dumbing down. Don't they teach recreational mathematics anymore?"}}
** Excess math would certainly account for The Doctor's eccentric nature, not that he needs another excuse.
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** Well, to be fair, his being hospitalized a couple of times did also have to do with the death of his son and him being viciously attacked by fellow mathematicians who just did not understand his ideas. Anyone would suffer from depression and mental breakdown when his achievements fail to gain the credit they deserve, regardless of the discipline one is working in. That is to say, it was probably not the math in itself that was responsible for Georg Cantor's problems with mental sanity.
* [[Lewis Carroll]] was a mathematician. Coincidentally, he also allegedly suffered from epilepsy and a rare condition that causes a person to perceive the size of objects incorrectly which is actually named after ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]''. His background as a mathematician and logician, as well as his experiences with mental illness, were the inspiration to some of the more cerebral elements of his writing. [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made On Drugs?|Drugs on the other hand, not so much.]]
** In fact, the Wonderland series was an attack on the "new mathematics" coming into vogue in Carroll's time. This included such things as imaginary numbers, abstract algebras, nondecimal bases, and limits. [
* The mathematicians of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw-zNRNcF90 Dangerous Knowledge] (including the aforementioned Georg Cantor) went mad trying to figure out infinity.
* In his later years, Kurt Gödel began to suffer mental instability, to the point where he started to think someone was trying to poison him and asked his wife, Adele, to taste every meal he ate. When Adele was hospitalized, Gödel ''refused to eat anything'', eventually dying.
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