He seems to have done this in a rage.
on purpose and then sent it to his girlfriend as some type of present
Vincent Van Gogh cut off his ear.
he cut off his ear with a razor
No, that was Van Gogh.
It wasn't Leonardo da Vinci that was Vincent van Gogh.
No. He cut off his ear.
Vincent van Gogh was the famous painter who cut his ear off, but he was not a mathematician.
Vincent Van Gogh
He never cut off his foot, it was his left ear!!!!!
because he was really mad at his friend Paul Gaugin. And he cut off his left ear
That would be Vincent Van Gogh, according to legend. However, there is no evidence that he actually cut his own ear off. In fact, in recent times there is new historic evidence that suggests that it was cut off in an argument by a French artist called Paul Gauguin. See related link for the historian's new account.
In the room he rented in Arles.