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Author Topic: BBC Horizon - Dangerous Knowledge  (Read 1525 times)

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BBC Horizon - Dangerous Knowledge
« on: October 12, 2010, 03:59:21 AM »
BBC Horizon - Dangerous Knowledge

  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.
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Re: BBC Horizon - Dangerous Knowledge
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2010, 09:27:42 AM »
Nice vid. I always wish these types of programs would go into the math or the theory a little more.
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« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2010, 02:05:58 PM »
I know. It always leaves me searching for more vids or articles.

 Heh... maybe they were afraid to get close to the details; what with suicides and all, lol.
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« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2010, 03:14:52 PM »
I was glad to learn about one of the more seemingly simple and cool ideas, though, with the infinite points in a circle and how a larger circle would seem to have even more points.

From there, I was able to better grasp how Cantor figured out there were different levels of infinity. That was really the only thing they elaborated on.

Cool stuff.
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Re: BBC Horizon - Dangerous Knowledge
« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2010, 03:48:53 PM »
Fucking Nowledge
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Re: BBC Horizon - Dangerous Knowledge
« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2010, 03:51:17 PM »
The circle idea was a good way to get started wrapping your head around it. It's easy enough to understand one circle; and that it is made up of an infinite

number of discrete points. But then...  a bigger circle and suddenly "infinite" is not enough...  

It's not hard to see why no one even tried to figure it out until then.
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