Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Dangerous Knowledge

Watch below the wonderful BBC-4 documentary 'Dangerous Knowledge' (2008) about four great mathematicians (well, actually Boltzmann is rather a physicist than a mathematician):

Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing.

Cantor and Gödel went insane, Boltzmann and Turing committed suicide...so dangerous the pursuit of knowledge can be.

Part 1 of the documentary:



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