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posted June 08, 2011 05:16 AM            

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw-zNRNcF90&feature=related

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.

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posted June 08, 2011 06:23 PM            

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woah

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posted June 10, 2011 06:54 AM            

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Reminds me of the movie Pi, which is very good!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/

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“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
Philip K. Dick

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