E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith
E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Mathematics
ISBN: 978-0-8018-9186-1
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
In Equations from God, Daniel J. Cohen captures the origins of the rebirth of abstract mathematics in the intellectual quest to rise above common existence and touch the mind of the deity. Using an array of published and private sources, Cohen shows how philosophers and mathematicians seized upon the beautiful simplicity inherent in mathematical laws to reconnect with the divine and traces the route by which the divinely inspired mathematics of the Victorian era begot later secular philosophies.
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- Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Philosophie der Mathematik
- Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Geschichte der Mathematik
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Wissenschaft
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Allure of Pure Mathematics in the Victorian Age
1. Heavenly Symbols: Sources of Victorian Mathematical Idealism
2. God and Math at Harvard: Benjamin Peirce and the Divinityof Mathematics
3. George Boole and the Genesis of Symbolic Logic
4. Augustus De Morgan and the Logic of Relations
5. Early Calculations: Mathematics and Professionalismin the Late Nineteenth Century
Notes
Bibliography
Index