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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lawrence, Snezana (Editor ), McCartney, Mark, 1967- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
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