Dangerous Knowledge

Part 1

Part 2

Beneath the surface of the world, are the rules of science. But beneath them, there is a far deeper set of rules, a matrix of pure mathematics which explains the nature of the rules of science and how it is way we can understand them in the first place. In this documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Godel and Alan Turing whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all committing suicide.