Mathematics and the divine : a historical study /: a historical study. (2005)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: T. Koetsier and L. Bergmans, editors.
• Other Names: Koetsier, T; Bergmans, L (Luc)
• 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-François Mattéi, 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.André 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.François De Gandt, Husserl and Impossible Numbers: a Sceptical Experience; 33.Bruno Pinchard, Symbol and Space According to René Guénon; 34.Teun Koetsier, Eddington: Science and the Unseen World; 35.Albert van der Schoot, The Divined Proportion
• Edition: First edition
• Publisher Details: Amsterdam Boston : Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2005
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 701 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 201.651; Mathematics -- History; Religion and science -- History; RELIGION -- Religion & Science; Mathematics; Religion and science; Wiskunde; Godsdienst; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 0080457355; 9780080457352
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; Note: Print version record.
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