TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cohen,Daniel J.
TI  - Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith
T2  - Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology Series
SN  - 9780801891861
AV  - BL265.M3K64 
U1  - 261.5/5 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Religion and science
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: The Allure of Pure Mathematics in the Victorian Age -- CHAPTER ONE: Heavenly Symbols: Sources of Victorian Mathematical Idealism -- CHAPTER TWO: God and Math at Harvard: Benjamin Peirce and the Divinity of Mathematics -- CHAPTER THREE: George Boole and the Genesis of Symbolic Logic -- CHAPTER FOUR: Augustus De Morgan and the Logic of Relations -- CHAPTER FIVE: Earthly Calculations: Mathematics and Professionalism in the Late Nineteenth Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
N2  - Using an array of published and private sources, Cohen shows how philosophers and mathematicians seized upon the beautiful simplicity inherent in mathematical laws to reconnect with the divine and traces the route by which the divinely inspired mathematics of the Victorian era begot later secular philosophies
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