Equations from God : pure mathematics and Victorian faith /

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 ph...

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Main Author: Cohen, Daniel J. (Daniel Jared), 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, ©2007.
Series:Johns Hopkins studies in the history of mathematics.
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