Mathematicians and their Gods: Interactions between mathematics and religious beliefs
Autor Snezana Lawrence, Mark McCartneyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 iul 2015
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780198703051
ISBN-10: 0198703058
Pagini: 306
Dimensiuni: 161 x 237 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0198703058
Pagini: 306
Dimensiuni: 161 x 237 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Recenzii
Perhaps this is the most valuable contribution of Mathematicians and their Gods as a whole: it discusses ideas which must often appear strange to modern readers, and in explaining their context and influence helps us to understand how they captured the imaginations of our mathematical predecessors. This book will appeal to all those with an interest in mathematical history, regardless of their own religious views.
Lawrence and McCartney's volume captures the various ways in which mathematics and religion have represented commensurable, even interconnected, systems of knowledge and belief. ... The collection will serve these readers well and could also benefit historians of science or theology unfamiliar with the ground covered in these essays.
Lawrence and McCartney have done an admirable job in assembling a book of remarkable scholarship on a topic which challenges readers working in science or technology.
fascinating from cover to cover
Lawrence and McCartney's volume captures the various ways in which mathematics and religion have represented commensurable, even interconnected, systems of knowledge and belief. ... The collection will serve these readers well and could also benefit historians of science or theology unfamiliar with the ground covered in these essays.
Lawrence and McCartney have done an admirable job in assembling a book of remarkable scholarship on a topic which challenges readers working in science or technology.
fascinating from cover to cover
Notă biografică
Snezana Lawrence is a Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education at Bath Spa University. She has been involved with a number of national and international initiatives to promote the use of the history of mathematics in mathematics education. Snezana is on the Advisory Board of the History and Pedagogy of Mathematics Group (an affiliate of the International Commission on Mathematics Instruction), and is Mathematics Programme Director of the Prince's Teaching Institute Schools' Programme. She in on the Editorial Boards of BSHM Bulletin (as Associate Editor from January 2013) and Mathematics Today. Her website mathsisgoodforyou.com has attracted more than 4 million visitors since its launch in 2005.Mark McCartney is a Senior Lecturer in mathematics at the University of Ulster. His research and scholarly interests include nonlinear dynamics, mathematical modelling and the history of science. He is the editor (with Andrew Whitaker) of Physicists of Ireland (IOP, 2003) and (with Andrew Whitaker and Raymond Flood) of Kelvin - Life, Labours and Legacy (OUP, 2008) and James Clerk Maxwell - Perspectives on His Life and Work (OUP, 2014).
Cuprins
- 1: Mark McCartney: Introduction
- 2: Andrew Gregory: The Pythagoreans: Number and Numerology
- 3: Allan Chapman: Divine light
- 4: Owen Gingerich: Kepler and his Trinitarian Cosmology
- 5: Robin Wilson and John Fauvel: The Lull before the storm: combinatorics in the Renaissance
- 6: Jean-Pierre Brach: Mystical Arithmetic in the Renaissance: From Biblical Hermeneutics to a Philosophical Tool
- 7: Rob Iliffe: Newton, God, and the mathematics of the Two Books
- 8: Massimo Mazzotti: Maria Gaetana Agnesi, mathematician of God
- 9: Snezana Lawrence: Capital G for Geometry: Masonic lore and the history of geometry
- 10: Mark Richards: Charles Dodgeson's Work for God
- 11: Elizabeth Lewis: P. G. Tait, Balfour Stewart and The Unseen Universe
- 12: Melanie Bayley: Faith and Flatland
- 13: C Anthony Anderson: Gödel's "proof" for the existence of God