I think it is universally accepted that Gödel was a great mathematician who suffered from mental illness. Budiansky's book seems to espouse a romantic but bogu

I think it is universally accepted that Gödel was a great mathematician who suffered from mental illness. Budiansky's book seems to espouse a romantic but bogus notion that Gödel was a great mathematician because he suffered from mental illness. It doesn't work that way.