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Equations from God : Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology SeriesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (255 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801891861
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Equations from GodDDC classification:
  • 261.5/5
LOC classification:
  • BL265.M3K64
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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