in New York City.

Post married Gertrude Singer (1900-1956) in 1929, with whom he had a daughter, Phyllis Post Goodman (1932-1995). Post spent at most three hours a day on research on the advice of his doctor in order to avoid manic attacks, which he had been experiencing since his year at Princeton.

In 1936, he was appointed to the mathematics department at the City College of New York. He died in April 1954 of a heart attack following electroshock treatment

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