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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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