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Which mathematicians died very young or in a tragic way?

Roger Cotes, a contemporary of Newton and best known for the Newton-Cotes quadrature rules in numerical integration, died of a fever aged only 33. Newton supposedly said of his death 'If he had lived …
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Examples of papers co-authored by parent/child, or siblings

I am aware that this is a physics answer rather than mathematics, but in science probably the most famous example is William Bragg and son Lawrence Bragg who did pioneering experimental work with X-ra …
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Who are the youngest mathematicians that published an original research article in a peer-re...

John von Neumann published his first co-authored paper ''On the position of zeroes of certain minimum polynomials'' with Michael Fekete at the age of 18. His first solo paper ''On the introduction of …
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