Math for Mystics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Math for Mystics write by Renna Shesso. This book was released on 2007-04-01. Math for Mystics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Much of math history comes to us from early astrologers who needed to be able to describe and record what they saw in the night sky. Whether you were the king’s court astrologer or a farmer marking the best time for planting, timekeeping and numbers really mattered. Mistake a numerical pattern of petals and you could be poisoned. Lose the rhythm of a sacred dance or the meter of a ritually told story and the intricately woven threads that hold life together were spoiled. Ignore the celestial clock of equinoxes and solstices, and you’d risk being caught short of food for the winter. Shesso’s friendly tone and clear grasp of the information make the math “go down easy” in this marvelous book.
Naming Infinity
Naming Infinity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Naming Infinity write by Loren Graham. This book was released on 2009-03-31. Naming Infinity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1913, Russian imperial marines stormed an Orthodox monastery at Mt. Athos, Greece, to haul off monks engaged in a dangerously heretical practice known as Name Worshipping. Exiled to remote Russian outposts, the monks and their mystical movement went underground. Ultimately, they came across Russian intellectuals who embraced Name Worshipping—and who would achieve one of the biggest mathematical breakthroughs of the twentieth century, going beyond recent French achievements. Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor take us on an exciting mathematical mystery tour as they unravel a bizarre tale of political struggles, psychological crises, sexual complexities, and ethical dilemmas. At the core of this book is the contest between French and Russian mathematicians who sought new answers to one of the oldest puzzles in math: the nature of infinity. The French school chased rationalist solutions. The Russian mathematicians, notably Dmitri Egorov and Nikolai Luzin—who founded the famous Moscow School of Mathematics—were inspired by mystical insights attained during Name Worshipping. Their religious practice appears to have opened to them visions into the infinite—and led to the founding of descriptive set theory. The men and women of the leading French and Russian mathematical schools are central characters in this absorbing tale that could not be told until now. Naming Infinity is a poignant human interest story that raises provocative questions about science and religion, intuition and creativity.
Math Mystic's Guide to Creative Spirituality
Math Mystic's Guide to Creative Spirituality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Math Mystic's Guide to Creative Spirituality write by Sarah Voss. This book was released on 2024-04-04. Math Mystic's Guide to Creative Spirituality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Math Mystic’s Guide to Creative Spirituality is unique, provocative, engaging, and a masterpiece of philosophical and mystical exploration. It offers gourmet treats for those with spiritual hunger, a feast of innovative perspectives on building social collateral (trust, forgiveness, resilience . . .), and intellectual desserts for the mathematically inclined. User-friendly for the non-mathematician, the book also provides a smorgasbord of resources for those who want to know more about the math. Deeply personal but also scholarly, with an unprecedented use of mathematical metaphors, this book will appeal to mathematicians, scientists, teachers, philosophers, religious educators, and spiritual seekers of many persuasions. A math professor before becoming a Unitarian Universalist minister, the author has compiled herein a lifetime of creative study about the relationship between math and religion. She has pioneered ways to use mathematics to help clarify such spiritual ideas as God, fairness, equality, redemption, and the nature of things. In the process she coined the terms “matheology” and “mathaphor,” introduced the notion of math sermons, and has expanded the concept of moral math. This exciting collection of essays (with a little poetry as garnish) uses math as a language to nourish the spiritual heart of our global society.
Enthusiastic Mathematics
Enthusiastic Mathematics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Enthusiastic Mathematics write by Bernie Lewin. This book was released on 2018-11-19. Enthusiastic Mathematics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fifty years ago, a small sparse book came out under the pretentious title Laws of Form. Its author might have once fallen in with the logical philosophers of Cambridge, including Russell and Wittgenstein. But only later, while designing primitive switching circuits for British Rail, did George Spencer Brown come upon the arithmetic underlying Boolean algebra. Laws of Form flips the reduction of mathematics to logic, revealing simple laws of being and knowing that only reflect what great mystics, East and West, have been saying all along. Enthusiastic Mathematics offers the first thorough, philosophical introduction to Laws of Form. With no presumption for logic or mathematics, the reader is delivered into its philosophical vision via a colourful journey through the history of science.
The Mystery of the Aleph
The Mystery of the Aleph - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mystery of the Aleph write by Amir D. Aczel. This book was released on 2001-08-28. The Mystery of the Aleph available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A compelling narrative that blends the story of infinity with the tragic tale of a tormented and brilliant mathematician.
