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Mathematicians and their Gods: interactions between mathematics and religious beliefs/
To open a newspaper or turn on the television it would appear that science and religion are polar opposites - mutually exclusive bedfellows competing for hearts and minds. There is little indication of the rich interaction between religion and science throughout history, much of which continues toda...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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Oxford:
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | https://books.google.co.in/books?id=5rhDCQAAQBAJ&pg=PP1&dq=Mathematicians+and+their+Gods&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiD7tHuh8TTAhVCro8KHUgeBVQQ6AEIITAA#v=onepage&q=Mathematicians%20and%20their%20Gods&f=false |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Mark McCartney
- The Pythagoreans : number and numerology / Andrew Gregory
- Divine light / Allan Chapman
- Kepler and his Trinitarian cosmology / Owen Gingerich
- The Lull before the storm : combinatorics in the Renaissance / Robin Wilson and John Fauvel
- Mystical arithmetic in the Renaissance : from biblical hermeneutics to a philosophical tool / Jean-Pierre Brach
- Newton, God, and the mathematics of the two books / Rob Iliffe
- Maria Gaetana Agnesi, mathematician of God / Massimo Mazzotti
- Capital G for Geometry : Masonic lore and the history of geometry / Snezana Lawrence
- Charles Dodgson's work for God / Mark Richards
- P.G. Tait, Balfour Stewart, and The Unseen Universe / Elizabeth F. Lewis
- Faith and Flatland / Melanie Bayley
- Gödel's 'proof' for the existence of God / C. Anthony Anderson.