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.
Features
A breadth of scope covering many centuries Suitable for anyone interested in mathematics, history, philosophy, paranormal phenomena, psi-research, mysticism, or in any combination of the above An almost unique account of known histories, examined from a new vantage point
Sasho Kalajdzievski is a Senior Scholar in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Manitoba.
By:
Sasho Kalajdzievski (University of Manitoba Winnipeg Canada)
Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9781032251325
ISBN 10: 1032251328
Pages: 217
Publication Date: 12 December 2023
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Chapter 1. On Defining Mystics, Miracles, and Mathematicians. Chapter 2. From Mathematics to Mysticism and Back. Chapter 3. Alexander Grothendieck: the Man Who Searched. Chapter 3. Kurt Gödel: The Man Who Proved. Chapter 4. Alan Turing and the ‘Joke’. Chapter 5. A Gallery of Mystics and Mathematicians: First Digest. Chapter 6. The Many Lives of Bertus Brouwer. Chapter 7. Srinivasa Ramanujan. Chapter 8. Augustus De Morgan and His Wife Sophia. Chapter 9. Leibniz and Newton. Chapter 10. The Multitalented Blaise Pascal. Chapter 11. René Descartes: The Philosopher and the Warrior. Chapter 12. Cardano: The Psychic Mystic. Chapter 13. A Gallery of Mystics and Mathematicians: First Digest. Chapter 14. The Great Pythagoras.
Sasho Kalajdzievski is a professor in the Mathematics department at the University of Manitoba.
