Miracles, Mystics, Mathematicians

ISBN-13: 9781032252308 / Twarda / 2023 / 244 str.

Canada) Kalajdzievs Winnipeg Sasho (University of Manitoba

Opis

This book 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. 

Spis treści

Chapter 1. On Defining Mystics, Miracles, and Mathematicians. Chapter 2.   From Mathematics to Mysticism and Back. Chapter 3.   Alexander Grothendieck: the Man Who  Searched. Chapter 3. Kurt Gödel: The Man Who Proved. Chapter 4. Alan Turing and the ‘Joke’. Chapter 5. A Gallery of Mystics and Mathematicians: First Digest. Chapter 6. The Many Lives of Bertus Brouwer. Chapter 7. Srinivasa Ramanujan. Chapter 8. Augustus De Morgan and His Wife Sophia. Chapter 9. Leibniz and Newton. Chapter 10. The Multitalented Blaise Pascal. Chapter 11. René Descartes: The Philosopher and the Warrior. Chapter 12. Cardano: The Psychic Mystic. Chapter 13. A Gallery of Mystics and Mathematicians: First Digest. Chapter 14. The Great Pythagoras.

O autorze

Sasho Kalajdzievski is a professor in the Mathematics department at the University of Manitoba.