Dangerous Knowledge: Cantor, Boltzmann, Gödel and Turing documentary

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/dangerous-knowledge/

by yamaneko • 13 years ago

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emilisto• 13 years ago

Gödel committed suicide because the Brittish state persecuted him for being gay, which they recently issued an official apology for. To make a headline and article introduction that claims he commites suicide because of his genius is pretty tasteless.

DanBC• 13 years ago

That was Turing, not Gödel.

And they didn't apologise for Turing's death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_G%C3%B6del#Later_years_an...

In later life, Gödel suffered periods of mental instability and illness. He had an obsessive fear of being poisoned; he would eat only food that his wife, Adele, prepared for him. Late in 1977, Adele was hospitalized for six months and could no longer prepare Gödel's food. In her absence, he refused to eat, eventually starving to death.[19] He weighed 65 pounds (approximately 30 kg) when he died. His death certificate reported that he died of "malnutrition and inanition caused by personality disturbance" in Princeton Hospital on January 14, 1978.[20] Adele's death followed in 1981.

Dangerous Knowledge: Cantor, Boltzmann, Gödel and Turing documentary

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