Dangerous Knowledge

A timeless documentary looking 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.

It starts with the presenter David Malone saying
"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 we can understand
them in the first place."

These four great mathematicians shook the foundation of mathematics and science and introduced a whole new world of mathematics.