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Chronomar
2nd-March-2010, 08:05 AM
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Metsuki
2nd-March-2010, 04:00 PM
wut >.>
Marbas
2nd-March-2010, 07:37 PM
Dangerous Knowledge was a BBC documentary portraying the descent into madness of mathematicians who worked with things that fundamentally altered the way we view infinity, solvability, etc. The problem is that it over-dramatizes things immensely, and many mathematicians would probably disagree with the conclusions presented and the way that it seems to hint that "Hey, people who like math a lot are weird and if they are really like it they could snap!"
Daray
8th-March-2010, 02:52 PM
Hmm, i'm gonna watch that now :-)

Another nice BBC documentary is "the secret life of chaos"
NeverAmI
8th-March-2010, 03:14 PM
The show was interesting to me, but ultimately I didn't take anything away from it other than that there were multiple infinities. The actual mathematical or logical portrayal of the how's or why's of multiple infinities still eludes me. Of course, that may be me just not understanding the show, not sure.

I would give it 3 out of 5.

Hmm, i'm gonna watch that now :-)

Another nice BBC documentary is "the secret life of chaos"

I don't think I have watched this one, thanks!