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Anonymous Sun Nov 16 10:43:26 2014 No.6881854 [Reply] [Original]

Why go so many mathematicians mad when they grow older?

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>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 16 10:50:51 2014 No.6881868 >>6881854 >Why go so many mathematicians mad when they grow older? First, show me evidence that that is actually true. What are the statistics on mental illness in mathematicians compared to the general population, other academics, etc.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 16 10:52:36 2014 No.6881872 >>6881854 why did he turn into an Orthodox Monk? wtf? I thought he liked buddhism and was an enviromentalist,

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 16 10:54:35 2014 No.6881877 >>6881872 I thought he turned into a Sith lord.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 16 10:56:06 2014 No.6881882 >>6881854 he gave up math like 20 years ago or more...he concentrated on more important things, bigger things religion and politics.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 16 10:56:42 2014 No.6881885 File: 25 KB, 560x407, 1415387117926.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >there are people on this board who fell for the death ruse He is probably teaching K-theory on the Himalayas right now.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 16 10:59:27 2014 No.6881890 they don't get 1+1=1 or 1+1=3

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 16 11:02:53 2014 No.6881898 >>6881882 most smart ppl give up math eventually, like that Russian guy he decided picking mushrooms and fucking his mom is a better way to spend his time

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 16 11:05:11 2014 No.6881901 File: 175 KB, 723x544, Bildschirmfoto 2014-11-16 um 17.04.47.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6881885 I think he has bigger problems.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 16 11:35:24 2014 No.6881943 File: 8 KB, 386x161, sick.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 16 11:45:04 2014 No.6881959 File: 162 KB, 666x462, muh ideas.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Sun Nov 16 11:58:05 2014 No.6881971

>>6881868
I'm not that guy but he's onto something. Lots of math people really do go insane. BBC made a documentary on this called Dangerous Knowledge.

>Beneath the surface of the world, are the rules of science. But beneath them, there is a far deeper set of rules – a matrix of pure mathematics which explains the nature of the rules of science and how it is way we can understand them in the first place. In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians – Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing – whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all committing suicide.

>The film begins with Georg Cantor, the great mathematician whose work proved to be the foundation for much of the 20th-century mathematics. He believed he was God’s messenger and was eventually driven insane trying to prove his theories of infinity.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdoe8u_dangerous-knowledge-1-5_shortfilms

>>	:) Sun Nov 16 12:29:06 2014 No.6882019 >>6881971 so many comfy places in that documentary

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 16 16:20:23 2014 No.6882570 >>6881971 such bs Turing was persecuted for homosexuality and forced to take estrogen. What happened to him is an abusive tragedy.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 17 00:51:26 2014 No.6883654 File: 13 KB, 284x400, Eugene_Dynkin.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] R.I.P., Dynkin died on Friday Hopefully this isn't a trend

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 17 01:02:14 2014 No.6883670 >>6882570 It's also an open question as to whether it was suicide or an accidental poisoning

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 17 01:41:28 2014 No.6883709 >>6881971 >Alan Turing I think the chemical castration might have had something to do with it

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 17 02:23:48 2014 No.6883748 File: 35 KB, 310x260, 310px-Simple_Torus.svg.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6883654 i loved his donuts

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 17 02:27:16 2014 No.6883752 >>6881971 Wait. So math is like the necronomicon? It's all ancient secrets that were never meant to be known by man and will turn you insane if you set eyes upon it?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 17 02:29:20 2014 No.6883753 >>6883752 You might also unleash something horrible onto humanity. Nuclear weapons Math makes it all possible.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 17 02:50:17 2014 No.6883773 >>6881854 Probably the autism

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 17 02:54:55 2014 No.6883778 >>6881971 So are we ignoring the fact that Turing committed suicide after being chemically castrated for being gay?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 17 02:58:28 2014 No.6883782 >>6883752 Exodus 33:20

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 17 02:59:13 2014 No.6883784 >>6883778 >don't you see, him being gay was the mental illness

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 17 03:09:48 2014 No.6883797 >>6881971 >Lots of math people really do go insane >links a documentary of 4 people over hundreds of years.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 17 03:14:59 2014 No.6883798 >>6883782 10/10

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