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BBC Documentaries: Season 2007

2007x40 Dangerous Knowledge
TV-PG

  • 2007-08-08T20:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h
  • United Kingdom
  • English
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.
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