Equations from God : pure mathematics and Victorian faith

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Label

Equations from God : pure mathematics and Victorian faith

Title remainder

pure mathematics and Victorian faith

Statement of responsibility

Daniel J. Cohen

Creator

• Cohen, Daniel J., (Daniel Jared), 1968-

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Subject

• Electronic books
• Mathematics
• Religion and science

Language

eng

Summary

This illuminating history explores the complex relationship between mathematics, religious belief, and Victorian culture. Throughout history, application rather than abstraction has been the prominent driving force in mathematics. From the compass and sextant to partial differential equations, mathematical advances were spurred by the desire for better navigation tools, weaponry, and construction methods. But the religious upheaval in Victorian England and the fledgling United States opened the way for the rediscovery of pure mathematics, a tradition rooted in Ancient Greece. 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

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

261.5/5

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Johns Hopkins studies in the history of mathematics

Target audience

adult