Miracles, mystics, mathematicians : searching for deep reality /
Miracles, Mystics, Mathematicians : Searching for Deep Reality focuses on the lives and writings of some of history's most influential mathematicians and the impact that their mystical beliefs had on their lives and on their mathematical work. Modern biographers often cleanse the lives of renow...
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Published: |
CRC Press,
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Publisher Address: | Boca Raton, FL : |
Publication Dates: | 2024. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Edition: | First edition. |
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Summary: |
Miracles, Mystics, Mathematicians : Searching for Deep Reality focuses on the lives and writings of some of history's most influential mathematicians and the impact that their mystical beliefs had on their lives and on their mathematical work. Modern biographers often cleanse the lives of renowned scientists of any hint of mysticism or occultism. Such threads are sometimes regarded as relics of the superstitious past; flaws that need to be hushed up, marginalized, or reinterpreted. This book represents a minor attempt to push back against this tendency and to examine these aspects of the history of mathematics with seriousness and intellectual curiosity. From back cover. |
Carrier Form: | xvi, 216 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-211) and index. |
ISBN: |
9781032252308 1032252308 |
Index Number: | QA28 |
CLC: |
O1-0 K816.11 |
Call Number: | K816.11/K141 |