The God of Mathematics - Georg Cantor's Infinities (Continuum Hypothesis)

[Lordwarship]

he made us crazy

[ClockNumerology]

The Bankers know what infinity is: being born in a dynasty family, the worth of your family is not in millions or billions, but everywhere you go (public relations)...you -ARE!- infinite, (fans throw public relation opportunities at you) godlike (untouchable), and able to get away with any crime.

[sosaysjayrod]

HA! Gay-org...

wait, he... he discovered an infinity infinities?

Wow... i'll just take a seat over here for a little bit...

[ElectroMagneticWeak]

Aus dem Paradies, das Cantor uns geschaffen, soll uns niemand vertreiben können.

No one shall expel us from the Paradise that Cantor has created.

-----David Hilbert

[ThinkTank255]

Cantor was a religious nutcase. He completely messed up mathematics, and we've been suffering from his nonsense ever since. I DESPISE Cantor and everything he ever developed. I hope he is burning in the Hell of his own imagination's creation.

[CoolCat123450]

@ThinkTank255 I really hope you can understand hyperreal numbers and pure mathematics. It saddens me how what cannot be comprehended by the finite mind is looked down upon. Have you ever heard of Hilbert's paradox?

[jeffleiser]

The BBC botched this "biographic" sketch. For one, Cantor did put his faith in Jesus; there is no evidence to indicate otherwise. Secondly, the numbers did not drive Cantor mad; they were God-given, thus a source of solace. He was in asylum due to relational stress and family loss, the CH problem only contributing to the struggle. Thirdly, Cantor vehemently rejected the infinitesimal "numbers". Lastly, Cantor eschewed the lemniscate (infinity-8 symbol), preferring "w" from 1882 onwards.

[Helladius666]

It all comes down to the capacity of our mind....Our left hemisphere wants to control our perception of the world (it's also the source of our feeling of distinctiveness, hence the ideas of grandeur of Cantor). When it realizes the infeasible task it goes into a loop because of it's dominant role. It loves dominance and feeds of it even if it leads to demise like Cantor's....If you stick with math, like mphello below proposes, perception of being is always going to be fragmented and incomplete.

[mphello]

We ALL die, and it's usually not very pleasant no matter how we go (slowly or fast - both are shocking) so there's nothing particularly "tragic" about Cantor's life (and death). Just dumb media hype.

Stick to the math. Stop with the BS philosophizing.

[salviileo]

God tortured him with infinite numbers. This is sad. heh

[MXR789]

This sounds almost exactly like a Kurt Vonnegut short story about a man in an insane asylum because he was trying to prove that there was a whole number between 3 and 4. I guess nothing is a remix.

[swygster]

So basically Cantor saw decimal infinities between each integer which can be considered a different infinity from regular integers. I don't know, tough to say: infinity times infinity is still the same as infinity and comparable with even the decimal infinities. The containers are just from a different angle and measured differently.

[rucceij]

@swygster The clue is, that each "decimal infinity" (each set of real numbers) between two integers is bigger than the "infinity from regular integers" (the whole set of natural numbers). check out the diagonalisation argument. cheers

[kingofdice66]

what a perfectly oval circle he had drawn .. lol

[tklokker]

he heard a voice, and he followed (instinct), he studied what was "hidden" when he began to connect the dots, mathematically and spritually, his mind expanded indeed infinately, and he lost his focus point in reality, and lost his mind....

[DiceEsque]

If Cantor thought god was talking to him, he didn't "go" crazy, he was from the start. Genius though.

[JG129]

@DiceEsque Many great men hear voices. The greatest inventor of all time Nikola tesla said he heard voices and that aliens were giving him blue prints in his mind for many of his inventions. Obviously I don't believe aliens were telling him this but I think there is something there. Its easy to just say they're crazy but I think it needs to be looked into more. Especially when such brilliant man have these experiences.

[MISTERASMODEUS]

Amazing mind and story. So sad he couldn't let his mind be free of man made gods

[ranuvawinter]

May his Mind rest in Peace..

[jjojjorge]

Jesus, Democritus, Schopenhauer, and many other advanced individuals during their lifetime were deemed many unjust epithets, including the typical one: Crazy, Mad, insane, and many other contemporary popular-cultured synonyms. Also, most historians and other pseudo-intellectuals cannot even begin to see the real character, aims, and the meaning of the achievements of their prejudged victims.

[calderona100]

I`m enjoing today reading the Cantor´s complete works and I m amzing about his discovering capactiy about Trigonom Series and Geometry of Points.

[jdbrown371]

Cantor was a true "Greek". Logic is everything in mathematics. No logic, no mathematics. If logic takes mathematics somewhere we don't like then it's just too bad for us. Cantor's theory is NOT theology or philosophy but the result of asking the right questions, making reasonable assumptions (maybe they aren't so reasonable but we'll see) and then following the rules of logic. It simply couldn't be made up, only discovered.

[gilbertgodlyddd]

"If all he had seen was mathematics, this story would not be an interesting one"... I dispute that.

[Joniversity]

@gilbertgodlyddd I TOTALLY agree!

[Leadman1989]

@gilbertgodlyddd

They didn't say that.

[AI2flesh]

yup that there is only 4 dvd, that is a big problem.

[nontheistdavid]

Is this part of a larger program?

[Joniversity]

@nontheistdavid Yap! Note that i ALWAYS include links to original programs in the description box. These edits are for people that don't have time to watch entire programs or just want to get the gist of things. If you do have the time, i highly recommend it!

[HiTechSoul]

@nontheistdavid yes.

[mattysimsoficial]

@nontheistdavid yes, look up bbc dangerous knowledge. Its a 4 part or 9 part bit. Pretty interesting but they go too much into why they went mad and not into detail on their theories and findings...

[AClarke2007]

Cantor didn`t balance his practical and theory; a mix of the two keeps you sane!

[AtheisticHappiness]

With the content you are puttig up, I wonder why you don't have more viewers.

[123backinyerface]

Some one should have just told him that it is really ok to just round up or down, lol. jk

A very tragic and humbling story, I think the insanity happened the second he thought he could explain infinity enough to understand it. I think the guy who said he was a corrupter of minds, sadly was right. Obsession is a very dangerous thing indeed. Still, as ever Jonny, I thoroughly enjoyed the video, cheers bro.

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[Joniversity]

@123backinyerface A) LMAO! I couldn't stop laughing at that one...

B) It always strikes me as incredible that there's such a thin line between genius and mental illness, but even more amazing is the coloration between the two.

C) My pleasure :-)

[Vorushka01]

What an enjoyment!

[MsMrNoface]

Awesome selection, very interesting Individual.

[marisiram1]

that was amazing, frightening and wonderful