Miracles, Mystics, Mathematicians
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Miracles, Mystics, Mathematicians

Searching for Deep Reality

  1. 217 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Miracles, Mystics, Mathematicians

Searching for Deep Reality

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Prologue and Acknowledgements
  8. Preface
  9. CHAPTER 1 On Defining Mystics, Miracles, and Mathematicians
  10. CHAPTER 2 From Mathematics to Mysticism and Back
  11. CHAPTER 3 Alexander Grothendieck: The Man Who Searched
  12. CHAPTER 4 Kurt Gödel: The Man Who Proved
  13. CHAPTER 5 Alan Turing and the ‘Joke’
  14. CHAPTER 6 A Gallery of Mystics and Mathematicians: First Digest
  15. CHAPTER 7 The Many Lives of Bertus Brouwer
  16. CHAPTER 8 Srinivasa Ramanujan
  17. CHAPTER 9 Augustus De Morgan and His Wife Sophia
  18. CHAPTER 10 Leibniz and Newton
  19. CHAPTER 11 The Multitalented Blaise Pascal
  20. CHAPTER 12 René Descartes: The Philosopher and the Warrior
  21. CHAPTER 13 Cardano: The Psychic Mystic
  22. CHAPTER 14 A Gallery of Mystics and Mathematicians: Second Digest
  23. CHAPTER 15 The Great Pythagoras
  24. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  25. INDEX