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    • Dangerous Knowledge

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      Originally airing on the BBC in 2007, Dangerous Knowledge is an interesting watch. It was part of the “Science You Can’t See” season. During the film, David Malone brings to life the story of talented mathematicians, Kurt Godel, Georg Cantor, Alan Turing and Ludwig Boltzmann. These four men were brilliant and their smarts affected us greatly, but what caused them to go mad and eventually lead them into suicide? The BBC uncovers this question in Dangerous Knowledge.

      Following the lives of these four brilliant men, they examine Godel who was the best logician and even a confidant of Einstein. His plan was to go on and solve the problems that had led to to Cantor’s defeat by proving the completeness of me mathematics. Unfortunately, it was mathematics that defeated him and he ended up starving himself to death.

      Georg Cantor, he believed he was a messenger of God. Unfortunately his theories of infinity uncovered paradoxes and doubt at the base of mathematics. This was a discovery in which he was bitterly disagreed with and would eventually drive him mad. Alan Turing, father of computer science and the great Bletchley Par code breaker focused on the mathematics of infinity and became a question about human kind. He passed away still questioning the limits of logic.

      Ludwig Boltzmann, a physicist struggled for thirty years to have his theories accepted before eventually giving in and committing suicide. While many might disagree with this documentary, i found it to be quite interesting.

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      Published on January 1, 2009 · Filed under: Science, Technology

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    • Tom

      If we knew what we are, we should do as Sir Arthur Jermyn did; and Arthur Jermyn soaked himself in oil and set fire to his clothing one night.
      - Lovecraft

    • Gill

      Sometimes the search for the TRUTH can drive one insane – especially if you can't seem to find it.

    • D. R. Page

      When they are explaining that 'awe inspiring' feeling. I know I felt that same thing in my theoretician work that I do in my studies in my spare time. Just it makes you feel so at one with everything and just makes you so happy but, inspires you. The beauty of the world without any mystery but, problems yet there to find.

    • LJ

      Crap and boring. These people were clearly clinically insane, suffering from diseases like Schizophrenia. Their math didn’t drive them insane. If anything, their insanity fueled their math. In the end, none of them are likely to be correct, just absolutely insane.

    • Eddie

      Maybe ignorance really is bliss… or at least a more manageable existence.