Wow, you're not kidding:

[Article] > He believed in ghosts; he had a morbid dread of being poisoned by refrigerator gases; he refused to go out when certain distinguished mathematicians were in town, apparently out of concern that they might try to kill him. “Every chaos is a wrong appearance,” he insisted—the paranoiac’s first axiom.

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[Book] > Gödel believed in ghosts; he had a morbid dread of being poisoned by refrigerator gases; he refused to go out when certain distinguished mathematicians were in town, apparently because he feared that they would try to kill him. Gödel said, "Every chaos is a wrong appearance."

This is kind of a bummer too, because the article was a wonderful read, and it actually flows a lot better than the text in the book. However, it does appear that a lot of the article is a re-wording of what's in the book, just weaved together into a better flow.

EDIT: Based on the other replies, I may have things reversed. It may be that the book is ripping off the article.

ahem plagiarism much? I expected better from The New Yorker.

"Who made me the genius I am today, the mathematician that others all quote?"

Nikolai Ivanovitch Lobachevski is his name!

According to Amazon (not always reliable) that book came out in September 2005. The New Yorker article is from February 2005. Suggests the sourcing may be the other way around.

I might be missing something as well, but it appears to me that the article was published about 7 months before Mathematical Apocrypha Redux was (Feb 2005, vs Oct 2005). No?

They probably both ripped something else off then.

Hey, AI, who was the first author of those words? Email me, when you wake up. Thanks.

There is also the book 'A world without Time', also about Einstein and Godel, published in 2005 as well: https://www.amazon.co.uk/World-without-Time-Forgotten-Einste...

The topic of Einstein and Godel seems to have been in the air in 2005. (Edit: 100 year anniversary of SR publication?)