| Dangerous Knowledge |
| Science |
Beneath the surface of the world, are the rules of science. But beneath them, there is a far deeper set of rules - a matrix of pure mathematics which explains the nature of the rules of science and how it is way we can understand them in the first place.
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.
Part 1
Part 2
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. |