Equations from God : pure mathematics and Victorian faith

Equations from God : pure mathematics and Victorian faith / Daniel J. Cohen.

Using an array of published and private sources, Cohen shows how philosophers and mathematicians seized upon the beautiful simplicity inherent in mathematical laws to reconnect with the divine and traces the route by which the divinely inspired mathematics of the Victorian era begot later secular ph...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cohen, Daniel J. (Daniel Jared), 1968-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, ©2007.
Series:Johns Hopkins studies in the history of mathematics.
Subjects:
Religion and science.
Mathematics.
mathematics.
applied mathematics.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
RELIGION > Christian Life > Social Issues.
Mathematics
Religion and science
Geloof en wetenschap.
Wiskunde.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : The allure of pure mathematics in the Victorian Age
  • Heavenly symbols : sources of Victorian mathematical idealism
  • God and math at Harvard : Benjamin Peirce and the divinity of mathematics
  • George Boole and the genesis of symbolic logic
  • Augustus De Morgan and the logic of relations
  • Earthly calculations : mathematics and professionalism in the late nineteenth century.

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