Disruptive innovations in science: daring to transcend outdated conventions to productively lose control

The BBC4 documentary 'Dangerous knowledge' looks at four brilliant mathematicians - Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing - who dared to transcend outdated assumptions and conventions, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all committing suicide.

The documentary begins with Georg Cantor, the great mathematician whose work proved to be the foundation for much of the 20th-century mathematics. He was eventually driven insane trying to prove his theories of infinity.




Learn more of Ludwig Bolzman's entropy theory by this TED talk. And an introduction of Richard Feynman.


Learn more of Richard Feynman by this TED talk. Key message: go for less baloney and for more ham.