Dangerous Knowledge

In this 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. Dangerous Knowledge tackles some of the profound questions about the true nature of reality that mathematical thinkers are still trying to answer today.