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100	1		_aCohen, Daniel J.
245	1	0	_aEquations from God : _bPure Mathematics and Victorian Faith.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aBaltimore : _bJohns Hopkins University Press, _c2007.
264		4	_c©2007.
300			_a1 online resource (255 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aJohns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology Series
505	0		_aIntro -- 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.
520			_aUsing 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.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aReligion and science.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aCohen, Daniel J. _tEquations from God _dBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,c2007 _z9780801885532
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
830		0	_aJohns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology Series
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3318376 _zClick to View
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