Hi there A few mathematicians’ biographies are especially notable, both in terms of the mathematicians’ achievements and their personalities. Nash, von Neumann, Turing, Wiener, Cantor, Grothendieck, Abel and Gödel come to mind. The latter has been the topic of several previous newsletters, including:
Excellent. Here is another one: Gödel's Way: Exploits into an undecidable world (2011).
Here is a very interesting essay on Gödel’s Defense of the Immortality of the Soul:
https://aeon.co/essays/kurt-godel-his-mother-and-the-argument-for-life-after-death
and another shorter essay is here
https://evolutionnews.org/2024/01/godels-defense-of-the-immortality-of-the-soul/