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According to the film, Cantor had mental problems even before he dove into serious math - voices in his head, etc. Turing: from the psychiatry standpoint homos
by mojuba 19y ago
According to the film, Cantor had mental problems even before he dove into serious math - voices in his head, etc.
Turing: from the psychiatry standpoint homosexuality is a pathology too, and again, he had homosexual affairs before he started working on the problems that made him famous.
Which means, we may be confusing cause and effect here.
- gwenhwyfaer 19y ago> from the psychiatry standpoint homosexuality is a pathology too But what the fuck isn't?
- mojuba 19y agoSomeone who is absolutely free of neuroses is useless. Maybe that's what the story in OP about.
- ed 19y ago"from the psychiatry standpoint homosexuality is a pathology too" Not any more, but in Turing's time yes.
- mojuba 19y agoThen why you think he is in the list of "crazy" mathematicians, at least according to the authors? (It may be because of the suicide though, which is considered pathology even now.)