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Mathematics and the Divine seem to correspond to diametrically opposed tendencies of the human mind. Does the mathematician not seek what is precisely defined, and do the objects intended by the mystic and the theologian not lie beyond definition? Is mathematics not Man's search for a measure,...
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Elsevier,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam ; Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | 2005. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Ist ed. |
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780444503282 |
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Mathematics and the Divine seem to correspond to diametrically opposed tendencies of the human mind. Does the mathematician not seek what is precisely defined, and do the objects intended by the mystic and the theologian not lie beyond definition? Is mathematics not Man's search for a measure, and isnt the Divine that which is immeasurable? The present book shows that the domains of mathematics and the Divine, which may seem so radically separated, have throughout history and across cultures, proved to be intimately related. Religious activities such as the building of temples, the telling o |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xiii, 701 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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9780444503282 0444503285 0080457355 9780080457352 |
| Index Number: | QA21 |
| CLC: | O11-05 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- 1. Ho Peng-Yoke, Chinese Number Mysticism -- 2. Kim Plofker, Derivation and Revelation: the Legitimacy of Mathematical Models in Indian Cosmology -- 3. Reviel Netz, The Pythagoreans -- 4. Ian Mueller, Mathematics and the Divine in Plato -- 5. Jean-Fran ois Matt i, Nicomachus of Gerasa and the Divine Arithmetical Ladder -- 6. Dominic J. O'Meara, Geometry and the Divine in Proclus -- 7. Marie-Pierre Terrien, Religious Architecture and Mathematics during Late Antiquity -- 8. David A. King, The Sacred Geography of Islam -- 9. Faith Wallis, 'Number Mystique' in early medieval comp |