Mathematics and the divine : a historical study /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Koetsier, T., Bergmans, L. (Luc)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2005.
Edición:Ist ed.
Temas:
Mathematics > History.
Religion and science > History.
Math�ematiques > Histoire.
Religion et sciences > Histoire.
Mathematics
Religion and science
Wiskunde.
Godsdienst.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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-Fra�nois Mat�ti, 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 computus texts
  • 10. Maurice-Ruben Hayoun, Is the Divine Universe Divisible
  • 11. Charles Lohr, Mathematics and the Divine: Ramon Lull
  • 12. Hugue Garcia, Christian Gnosis
  • 13. Edith Dudley Sylla, Swester Katrei and Gregory of Rimini: Angels, God and Mathematics in the Fourteenth Century
  • 14. Jean-Michel Counet, Mathematics and the Divine in Nicholas of Cusa
  • 15. Teun Koetsier and Karin Reich, Michael Stifel and his Numerology
  • 16. Ivo Schneider, Between Rosicrucians and Kabbala
  • the Mathematics of the Biblical Numbers of Johannes Faulhaber
  • 17. Eberhard Knobloch, Mathematics and the Divine: Athanasius Kircher
  • 18. Volker R. Remmert, Galileo, God and Mathematics
  • 19. And�r Charrak, The Mathematical Model of Creation According to Kepler
  • 20. Jean-Marie Nicolle, The Mathematical Analogy in the Proof of God's Existence by Descartes
  • 21. Donald Adamson, Pascal's Views on Mathematics and the Divine
  • 22. Ger Harmsen, Spinoza and the Geometrical Method of Proof
  • 23. Philip Beeley and Siegmund Probst, John Wallis (1616-1703): Mathematician and Divine
  • 24. Kees de Pater, Newton and the Ocean of Truth
  • 25. Herbert Breger, Leibniz: Mathematics and the Divine
  • 26. Wolfgang Breidert, Berkeley's Defence of the Infinite God in Contrast to the Infinite in Mathematics
  • 27. Ruediger Thiele, Leonhard Euler and the Divine
  • 28. Ruediger Thiele, Georg Cantor and the Divine
  • 29. Luc Bergmans, Gerrit Mannoury and his Fellow Significians on Mathematics and Mysticism
  • 30. Teun Koetsier, Arthur Schopenhauer and L.E.J. Brouwer: A Comparison
  • 31. Sergei S. Demidov and Charles E. Ford, On the Road to a Unified View: Priest Pavel Florensky
  • Theologian, Philosopher and Scientist
  • 32. Fra�nois De Gandt, Husserl and Impossible Numbers: a Sceptical Experience
  • 33. Bruno Pinchard, Symbol and Space According to Re�n G�unon
  • 34. Teun Koetsier, Eddington: Science and the Unseen World
  • 35. Albert van der Schoot, The Divined Proportion.

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