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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kalajdzievski, Sasho (Author)
Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Mathematicians > Biography. Mathematics > Philosophy. Mysticism. Mathématiciens > Biographies. Mathématiques > Philosophie. Mysticisme. mysticism. MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy MATHEMATICS / Applied MATHEMATICS / Recreations & Games Mathematicians Mathematics > Philosophy Mysticism Electronic books. Biographies Biographies.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. On defining mystics, miracles, and mathematicians
2. From mathematics to mysticism and back
3. Alexander Grothendieck: the man who searched
4. Kurt Gödel: the man who proved
5. Alan Turing and the "joke"
6. A gallery of mystics and mathematicians: First digest
7. The many lives of Bertus Brouwer
8. Srinivasa Ramanujan
9. Augustus De Morgan and his wife Sophia
10. Leibniz and Newton
11. The multitalented Blaise Pascal
12. René Descartes: the philosopher and the warrior
13. Cardano: the psychic mystic
14. A gallery of mystics and mathematicians: Second digest
15. The great Pythagoras.