The oops!, shits!, and funny stories of famous mathematicians

Well...since I'm on the math thing (strange for me...you can trust me on that), here's something I wouldn't really expect from Eureka Alerts:

Steven G. Krantz,, Ph.D., professor of mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis, illuminates mathematicians' very human brilliance in his book, Mathematical Apocrypha Redux, his sequel to his successful, original Mathematical Apocrypha, published in 2002, both by the Mathematical Association of America.

The book is a collection of anecdotes about famous mathematicians and their frivolity, wisdom and situations, revealing more vulnerable, human versions of the remote and often eccentric savants.

And here's an example from the book:

One day, a very famous mathematician at Princeton University named Willie Feller and his wife were trying to move a large table from their living room into their dining room. But they couldn't get it through the door. They struggled and they struggled and they just couldn't do it, and finally, in exhaustion and frustration, Feller sat down and did a mathematical derivation to prove that the table couldn't be gotten through the door. Meanwhile, as he was doing that, his wife got the table through the door.

It seems like this book could be really interesting - more than just a look into some mathematicians quirky behaviors.