Equations from God
Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith
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2007
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-8553-2 (ISBN)
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
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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.
Daniel J. Cohen is an assistant professor of history at George Mason University and the coauthor of Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web.
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
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.6.2007 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Mathematics |
| Verlagsort | Baltimore, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 476 g |
| Themenwelt | Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik | |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8018-8553-1 / 0801885531 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8018-8553-2 / 9780801885532 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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