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9780801885532 Academic Inspection Copy

Equations from God

Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith
  • ISBN-13: 9780801885532
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Daniel J. Cohen
  • Price: AUD $124.00
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  • Local release date: 14/06/2007
  • Format: Hardback 256 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Mathematics [PB]
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Throughout history, application rather than abstraction has been the prominent driving force in mathematics. From the compass and sextant to partial differential equations, mathematical advances were spurred by the desire for better navigation tools, weaponry, and construction methods. But the religious upheaval in Victorian England and the fledgling United States opened the way for the rediscovery of pure mathematics, a tradition rooted in Ancient Greece.In Equations from God, Daniel J. Cohen captures the origins of the rebirth of abstract mathematics in the intellectual quest to rise above common existence and touch the mind of the deity. 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.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Allure of Pure Mathematics in the Victorian Age1. Heavenly Symbols: Sources of Victorian Mathematical Idealism2. God and Math at Harvard: Benjamin Peirce and the Divinityof Mathematics3. George Boole and the Genesis of Symbolic Logic4. Augustus De Morgan and the Logic of Relations5. Early Calculations: Mathematics and Professionalismin the Late Nineteenth CenturyNotesBibliographyIndex

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