Ooh, nice. I'm digging it. I like knowing a bit more about not so much the characters, but how long ideas took to gestate, or how some commonly accepted things these days took decades to iron out.
Take Russel's paradox (set of all sets that do not contain themselves), such a simple thing, yet it was a huge deal at the time, making obsolete a bunch of work others had toiled over. Or accepting properties of real numbers. Cool stuff