Miracles, mystics, mathematicians : searching for deep reality /
"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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boca Raton, FL :
CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group,
2024.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 216 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781003282198 1003282199 9781000985993 1000985997 9781000985955 1000985954 |