[pmoriarty]

What are the other 4 top math stories?

For me one of them has to be of Évariste Galois[1], who, legend has it, hastily wrote fragments of his last mathematical discoveries on his shirt sleeves before fighting the duel that would end his life.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89variste_Galois

[dboreham]

Fun mathematical tourism stop: go up to the top of the Tour Montparnasse. Look straight down. Galois is buried in the cemetery below. Nobody knows where, but he's down there somewhere.

[madcaptenor]

My understanding is that this legend has been debunked, but ironically I can't find a source. (My instinct is to blame E. T. Bell.)