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26Jul/090

Philosophy, Physics, Mathematics – “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.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5122859998068380459