“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.”
Via Clifford Pickover’s Reality Carnival.
Nice movie. thx to all. Its a about the move from exact german type math to american
from classical music to jazz and rock heavy metal. and btw, real uncertainty is very natural, THOUGHT uncertainty is totally different – its the mental opposite of certainty.
I was reffered from torrent site , and quote what i wrote there : so while waiting… As one who has learned math at univ , it is interesting to see such a series which tells the story of fundamentals in relation to history and culture. Made me think about Math of builders : geometry problems , proof is a formal design problem-solving . Math of agriculture : numbers and equations i.e scales in the market ( turn “=” into “_- ” and you see the scales un-equality) , Math of the steam engine : Integrals and Differentials , the very word describes the gear box and its modulo, and he right math for movement . And of course the astronomy vision . vision of the universe . And I want to finish with the aspiration for balance amidst rolling forward which in fact is walking = remain balanced while walking, walking being legs moving within an imaginary circle i.e rolling. hope u got something from the above notations.