Examples of mathematicians who lost interest in Math and got interested again?

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I think the most famous example would be Blaise Pascal, who put his scientific interests to the side in 1654 to focus on religous matters. Fortunately (for us), in 1658 he had a bad toothache, and one sleepless night he started thinking about the cycloid to divert his thoughts. The rest is history....


Someone who lost interest in math, regained interest in math, then lost interest in it again.

Also according to this article Newton lost interest in math and physics quite often.

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