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.
Dialogue Timeline — 691 lines
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00:00:12 Boltzman had discovered one of the fundamental equations
00:02:16 defend it to your last breath
00:04:05 against all the odds it's Cantor who had uncovered uncertainty in mathematics
00:06:07 Cantor had stretched the limits of maths and logic to breaking point
00:08:36 had been resolved either
00:10:25 he was an unworldly and exact man who believed like Hilbert
00:12:21 your set of axioms, in arithmetics there would
00:14:31 but being right didn't make him popular
00:16:07 and he began to worry about the state of his mind
00:18:14 We are talking about people here who of course are capable of
00:21:05 to make Gödel's incompleteness theorem more concrete
00:22:34 between the provable and the unprovable
00:24:04 which is uncomputability, things which cannot be calculated
00:25:41 and the scientist in him could also see
00:27:21 Turing's personality is one thing.
00:29:06 they won't just doggedly follow one point of view
00:31:16 he grew breasts, his mood altered and he worried about his mind
00:33:35 In principle you could have a machine grinding away
00:35:07 Gödel believed the same ideas from his point of view to mean
00:36:31 he certainly tried again and again to work out
00:38:06 but then off course the one thing he really must prove
00:40:07 but with all the paradoxes that arise from self-conciousness
00:41:58 but the problem is I don't think you want to solve the problem
07:19:05 Turing was found dead
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed691
Dialogue density7.8 lines / min
First line00:00:12
Final line07:19:05
Production Record
DirectorDavid Malone
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes238