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Dangerous Knowledge
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Dangerous Knowledge

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Four mathematicians push logic and infinity to the point where it breaks them, and David Malone traces the pattern across a century of work. Georg Cantor develops set theory and the concept of different sizes of infinity, and spends his final years in a sanatorium. Ludwig Boltzmann's statistical proof of atoms is rejected by his peers before he takes his own life. Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorems show that any sufficiently powerful mathematical system contains truths it cannot prove, and he later dies convinced his food is being poisoned. Alan Turing, working out the limits of computation, is prosecuted for homosexuality and dies of cyanide poisoning. Malone interviews mathematicians and historians who lay out each proof in plain terms, using archival photographs and reenacted settings to place the ideas alongside the lives that produced them. The film's argument is blunt: these were not separate tragedies but casualties of the same pursuit, minds that got too close to the edge of what logic can know.