Mathematics and the Divine
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Mathematics and the Divine

A Historical Study

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eBook - ePub

Mathematics and the Divine

A Historical Study

About this book

Mathematics and the Divine seem to correspond to diametrically opposed tendencies of the human mind. Does the mathematician not seek what is precisely defined, and do the objects intended by the mystic and the theologian not lie beyond definition? Is mathematics not Man's search for a measure, and isn't the Divine that which is immeasurable ?The present book shows that the domains of mathematics and the Divine, which may seem so radically separated, have throughout history and across cultures, proved to be intimately related. Religious activities such as the building of temples, the telling of ritual stories or the drawing of enigmatic figures all display distinct mathematical features. Major philosophical systems dealing with the Absolute and theological speculations focussing on our knowledge of the Ultimate have been based on or inspired by mathematics. A series of chapters by an international team of experts highlighting key figures, schools and trains of thought is presented here. Chinese number mysticism, the views of Pythagoras and Plato and their followers, Nicholas of Cusa's theological geometry, Spinozism and intuitionism as a philosophy of mathematics are treated side by side among many other themes in an attempt at creating a global view on the relation of mathematics and Man's quest for the Absolute in the course of history.·Mathematics and man's quest for the Absolute·A selective history highlighting key figures, schools and trains of thought ·An international team of historians presenting specific new findings as well as general overviews·Confronting and uniting otherwise compartmentalized information

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Table of contents

  1. Cover image
  2. Title page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Preface
  7. List of Contributors
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1: Chinese Number Mysticism
  10. Chapter 2: Derivation and Revelation: The Legitimacy of Mathematical Models in Indian Cosmology
  11. Chapter 3: The Pythagoreans
  12. Chapter 4: Mathematics and the Divine in Plato
  13. Chapter 5: Nicomachus of Gerasa and the Arithmetic Scale of the Divine
  14. Chapter 6: Geometry and the Divine in Proclus
  15. Chapter 7: Religious Architecture and Mathematics During the Late Antiquity
  16. Chapter 8: The Sacred Geography of Islam
  17. Chapter 9: “Number Mystique” in Early Medieval Computus Texts
  18. Chapter 10: Is the Universe of the Divine Dividable?
  19. Chapter 11: Mathematics and the Divine: Ramon Lull
  20. Chapter 12: Odd Numbers and their Theological Potential. Exploring and Redescribing the Arithmetical Poetics of the Paintings on the Ceiling of St. Martin’s Church in Zillis
  21. Chapter 13: Swester Katrei and Gregory of Rimini: Angels, God, and Mathematics in the Fourteenth Century
  22. Chapter 14: Mathematics and the Divine in Nicholas of Cusa
  23. Chapter 15: Michael Stifel and his Numerology
  24. Chapter 16: Between Rosicrucians and Cabbala—Johannes Faulhaber’s Mathematics of Biblical Numbers
  25. Chapter 17: Mathematics and the Divine: Athanasius Kircher
  26. Chapter 18: Galileo, God and Mathematics
  27. Chapter 19: The Mathematical Model of Creation According to Kepler
  28. Chapter 20: The Mathematical Analogy in the Proof of God’s Existence by Descartes
  29. Chapter 21: Pascal’s Views on Mathematics and the Divine
  30. Chapter 22: Spinoza and the Geometrical Way of Proof
  31. Chapter 23: John Wallis (1616–1703): Mathematician and Divine
  32. Chapter 24: An Ocean of Truth
  33. Chapter 25: God and Mathematics in Leibniz’s Thought
  34. Chapter 26: Berkeley’s Defence of the Infinite God in Contrast to the Infinite in Mathematics
  35. Chapter 27: Leonhard Euler (1707–1783)
  36. Chapter 28: Georg Cantor (1845–1918)
  37. Chapter 29: Gerrit Mannoury and his Fellow Significians on Mathematics and Mysticism
  38. Chapter 30: Arthur Schopenhauer and L.E.J. Brouwer: A Comparison
  39. Chapter 31: On the Road to a Unified World View: Priest Pavel Florensky—Theologian, Philosopher and Scientist
  40. Chapter 32: Husserl and Impossible Numbers: A Sceptical Experience
  41. Chapter 33: Symbol and Space According to René Guénon
  42. Chapter 34: Eddington, Science and the Unseen World
  43. Chapter 35: The Divined Proportion
  44. Author Index
  45. Subject Index