Thoughts Of Infinity Considered Harmful
“What is the system that everything has to adhere to, if there is no god?”
Here is a very entertaining BBC documentary summarising the works of Cantor, Boltzmann, Gödel and Turing. Mathematics is full of a surprising number of good stories and, though I’m not too sure about some of the more dramatic claims, this film ties a bunch of them together in a very entertaining way.
Technorati Tags:mathematics, philosophy, Alan+Turing, Kurt+Godel
Some great books that cover particularly Turing and Gödel have been written and some of these authors are talking heads in the film :
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