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- Antebios, on 10/10/2007, -5/+227Now THIS was an EXCELLENT documentary. Too bad people are more interested in Lindsay Lohan.
- jarinudom, on 03/31/2008, -8/+193Basically math is hard
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+132Three statisticians go hunting. When they see a rabbit, the first one shoots, missing it on the left. The second one shoots and misses it on the right.
The third one shouts: "We've hit it!" - Intrepion, on 10/10/2007, -8/+115Chuck Norris
- dattaway, on 10/10/2007, -14/+11042
- subsisgood, on 10/10/2007, -3/+81Awesome, reminds me of the film "Pi".
- vsaint, on 10/10/2007, -4/+79No one ever told them the answers were in the back of the book.
- grunk, on 10/10/2007, -6/+80It just doesn't add up.
Go figure. Then kill yourself. - skyfire1, on 10/10/2007, -4/+66Who was that guy that divided by zero?
- quez, on 10/10/2007, -7/+67I now have justification to blow off my math homework. Thank you, Digg.
- Dumbledorito, on 10/10/2007, -0/+43Sitting at an outside table, at the coffee shop, sipping coffee, were a physicist, a biologist and a mathematician. They watched two people go into the house across the street. A bit later three people walked out.
"An error in measurement." said the physicist.
"They multiplied." countered the biologist.
The mathematician thought for a moment and then said "We need to wait until one more person goes in: then the house will be empty again." - monkeyrun, on 10/10/2007, -2/+44to be fair, they all happen to not have breasts.
- Markpdotcom, on 10/10/2007, -7/+46I'm people. I'm not interested in that knickerless trollop.
- sockpuppets, on 10/10/2007, -5/+42Or people whose brains are wired to solve sophisticated math problems are also wired for self destruction.
- catalysis, on 10/10/2007, -3/+37Obsession can make you great at anything
- maz2331, on 10/10/2007, -0/+31You'd probably commit suicide too if you discovered that the reason the problem took an extra 23.49543625 years to solve was because you forgot to carry the "2" in the 5626th step....
- Gagle, on 10/10/2007, -3/+33lmao ! No you don't understand. We're talking about mathematical proofs, not petty calculus recipes.
- adoggz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+31"Finally, Alan Turing, the great Bletchley Park code breaker, father of computer science and homosexual, died trying to prove that some things are fundamentally unprovable."
talk about irony, being unable to prove that somethings are unprovable. - RyanKr8ch, on 10/10/2007, -1/+29Allan Turing ate an apple he had injected with arsenic because he was going to be tried and probably convicted of having homosexual sex. We lost the man who invented computer science because the people at that time couldn't let him be who he was, and felt that they should ruin his reputation.
- esotericguy, on 10/10/2007, -6/+28HUZZAH FOR BRITISH SPEAK!
- byt123, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21maybe your statistics teacher goes by the nickname Toophatz007 ??
- inactive, on 07/30/2008, -1/+20Yes, maybe most people will never hear about the work of those mathematicians, but those who hear about them, and who in turn understand them, are the ones that will change the world you live in.
Taking walks is important, most discoveries are made exactly at moments when the researchers stop thinking about the problem, and they get a "flash", the solution suddenly comes to them. But if mankind had taken a nihilistic position as yours we would probably still be living in caves, because we would all be thinking: "What good is it trying to harvest fire since all those who tried before got burned?"
And finally the best reason I can give you for doing what they have been doing (and I hope are still doing), is curiosity and thirst for knowledge. - luet, on 10/10/2007, -3/+22Alan Turing was murdered! Found dead with an apple laced with cyanide. Beforehand he admitted to homosexual relations with a man from manchester and then put on trial for "Acts of Gross Indecency". Suicide my ass.
- wanzedk, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18..for extremely high values of 2.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16I cried reading what you just wrote.
- Fafnir43, on 10/10/2007, -4/+20Buried as inaccurate. The article strongly implies that the mathematicians it talks about committed suicide due to difficulties in their mathematics. This is not the case, with the possible exception of Boltzmann.
Lack of acceptance of Boltzmann's ideas may have been a factor in his death, but he also suffered from bipolar disorder. Cantor didn't believe he was God's messenger, and he pretty much succeeded in proving his ideas about infinity - he was driven to suicide by his contemporaries from constructivist schools of thought, who refused to accept his axioms. Godel died of starvation because he became paranoid to the point of believing that everyone was trying to poison him. And Turing killed himself two years after the police found out he was gay and chemically castrated him. (Bastards.) - po43292, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16zero cried
- specialK16, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16I'm such a ***** idiot :(
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+18See what I just did?
I used the 'Reply' feature.
I'm confident you can learn to do the same. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14Kind of like musicians as well. Most of the brilliant ones have gone insane. Since math and music theory and composition are very closely related.
- marko028, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13This is pure coincidence, I swear my Statistics teacher said the SAME EXACT joke today. Yeah I know most of you don't care but I found it pretty weird that its the same joke twice in the same day.
- Gagle, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13If I could, i would digg you twice for that one !!
- simpleid, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12I feel bad for Turing, they really screwed him up.
- Phyltre, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14Or extremely low values of 5. Why doesn't anyone ever consider that?
- thomasoa, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13Sigh, none of these people committed suicide because of their genius. They were troubled people who were also geniuses.
Turing took his own life almost certainly because he was arrested for being gay in England when you could still go to jail for being gay.
Cantor lived to a ripe old age of 72. He did spend many years in a sanitarium, probably for what we now call bi-polar disorder. Cantor's work did bring him grief, from other people, who thought that his exploration into the infinite was blasphemous and horrid.
Kurt Gödel died at 72, too. He was a life-long neurotic, possibly with Asperger's syndrome. - Gagle, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12I you read the actual proof as an adult, you would cry. Believe me on that one :P
- MagicCake, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Except girls
- jschuur, on 10/10/2007, -1/+123? I didn't know numbers went that high.
- alx1507, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12The Count is next :[
- terminal157, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Obsession and creativity often go hand in hand with mental illness. It's the same with fields other than mathematics, as well.
- sgtbutterscotch, on 10/10/2007, -4/+14HUZZAH FOR THIS BURYING!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12Because that had a HUGE effect on his life. Read about him.
Why bring that up? You a gay or something? - specialK16, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12Why did the math notebook commit suicide?
Because he had too many problems! - TheRemoteViewer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Supposedly actuaries have one of the highest suicide rates of any profession.
- iFungus, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12I think that was sarcasm.
And what is calculus 3? Is it real analysis? - kingvik, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10I don't see what he did.
- Homunculiheaded, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Not to mentioned that he was forced to take hormones and started to develop breasts. "Oh hey Alan you were a huge part in saving the free world during the war, not to mention all of your contributions to mathematics and other disciplines... wait you like men? Sorry we're going to have to destroy your life, that's just not acceptable". It is down right depressing how vile human being can be to each other.
- goldfenix, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Because if you didn't know that Turing was homosexual you must've quite literally never learned anything about the history of modern computing.
And further, the fact that this makes you paranoid and offended certainly paints you in a rather negative light. - Plinkotic, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11Yup. Plus, human understanding of 'concepts' is abstract; we change definitions and intended meanings constantly. My guess is they all figured out the formulae to their perceptions, saw through the Bleed and glimpsed in all their horrible glory The Great Old Ones, The Sleeping Cthonic Gods. It's enough to drive anyone ***** crazy!
- 3amfriday, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Yes, he had already been convicted. Normally he would have been sent to prison but because of his work cracking the enigma machine code it was kept pretty quiet. I think it's more likely he committed suicide because he was being persecuted by the government he worked for and on a forced regiment of mood-altering hormones than that he had discovered some mathematical truth that drove him insane. I don't know anything about the other men but this makes me suspicious of what this documentary is trying to prove.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing -
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