Añadido: Jul 23, 2008
Duración: 9:51
In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians - Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing - whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all committing suicide. The film begins with Georg Cantor, the great mathematician whose work proved to be the foundation for much of the 20th-century mathematics. He believed he was God's messenger and was eventually driven insane trying to prove his theories of infinity. Georg Cantor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor Ludwig Boltzmann's struggle to prove the existence of atoms and probability eventually drove him to suicide. Ludwig Boltzmann http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Boltzmann Kurt Gödel, the introverted confidant of Einstein, proved that there would always be problems which were outside human logic. His life ended in a sanatorium where he starved himself to death. Kurt Gödel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_G%C3%B6del Finally, Alan Turing, the great Bletchley Park code breaker, father of computer science and homosexual, died trying to prove that some things are fundamentally unprovable. Alan Turing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing The film also talks to the latest in the line of thinkers who have continued to pursue the question of whether there are things that mathematics and the human mind cannot know. They include Greg Chaitin, mathematician at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, New York, and Roger Penrose. Dangerous Knowledge tackles some of the profound questions about the true nature of reality that mathematical thinkers are still trying to answer today.
Categoría: Education
Tags: atoms brain entropy fibonacci god golden gravity illuminati infinity knowledge laws mathematician mathematics matter mechanics natural nature new nwo order perception physicist physics quantum reality thermodynamics time world
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