
- 217 pages
- English
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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
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue and Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 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 4 Kurt Gödel: The Man Who Proved
- CHAPTER 5 Alan Turing and the ‘Joke’
- CHAPTER 6 A Gallery of Mystics and Mathematicians: First Digest
- CHAPTER 7 The Many Lives of Bertus Brouwer
- CHAPTER 8 Srinivasa Ramanujan
- CHAPTER 9 Augustus De Morgan and His Wife Sophia
- CHAPTER 10 Leibniz and Newton
- CHAPTER 11 The Multitalented Blaise Pascal
- CHAPTER 12 René Descartes: The Philosopher and the Warrior
- CHAPTER 13 Cardano: The Psychic Mystic
- CHAPTER 14 A Gallery of Mystics and Mathematicians: Second Digest
- CHAPTER 15 The Great Pythagoras
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX