Dangerous Knowledge
2007 · 89 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 238 VOTES · DIR. David Malone
Overview
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 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. Dangerous Knowledge tackles some of the profound questions about the true nature of reality that mathematical thinkers are still trying to answer today.
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00:00:12 Boltzman had discovered one of the fundamental equations
00:02:14 write it so is clear
00:03:59 he had sowed the seeds of uncertainty in physics
00:05:51 could absolutely not be put in order
00:08:15 in some supernatural order which we are a small part
00:10:10 that they could believe in because everything else around them
00:11:53 and what he told them was that he had just proved
00:14:03 it was a perfect argument, cristal clear and obvious
00:15:43 of Gödel's work because the obvious conclusion is that logic is a failure
00:17:34 if you are a person who is already prone to a kind of exagerated
00:20:19 breaking the german enigma code.
00:22:02 they would never solve
00:23:36 and one possibility is it is going to stop eventualy
00:24:54 the second was for the computer which he felt
00:26:35 I think he may have vacillated a bit
00:28:12 but desperately wanted to prove he could get
00:30:02 this tension between the human and the computational
00:32:27 off course Gödel recovered from its time in the sanatorium
00:34:08 that enables them to create new mathematics, I think
00:35:38 that we can know things outside of logic
00:37:13 what I may call mathematical intuition
00:38:39 wanted to solve but could not
00:40:37 how strange!
00:42:18 can only be incomplete and finite
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Dialogue Record
Lines indexed691
Dialogue density7.8 lines / min
First line00:00:12
Final line00:42:18
Production Record
DirectorDavid Malone
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes238