Equations From God - Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith

Informationen zum Autor Daniel J. Cohen is an assistant professor of history at George Mason University and the coauthor of Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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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• Authors: Daniel J Cohen, Daniel J. Cohen, Daniel J. (Digital Public Library of Americ Cohen, Daniel J. (Digital Public Library of America) Cohen
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.06.2007
• EAN: 9780801885532
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8553-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the H; Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Mathematics; Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Mathematics; Johns Hopkins Studies in the H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)