Status Updates From Maniac

The first chunk of this book gives us a short story about the physicist Paul Ehrenfest who had such intense depression that he ended up shooting his disabled son and then himself. Then the book describes the early career of John von Neumann from the perspective of his family and friends. He worked under Hilbert for a while even as the Nazis were taking control, but finally gave up that work after Gödel thwarted him.