Sasho Kalajdzievski (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada)

Miracles, Mystics, Mathematicians

Searching for Deep Reality

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on the lives and writings of some of historyâ s most influential mathematicians, and the impact that their mystical beliefs had on their lives and on their mathematical work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 217
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 232mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781032251325
• ISBN-10: 1032251328
• Artikelnr.: 69846184

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.