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May 6, 2022 · Mathematical pursuits and religious pursuits are alike in many ways and evoke similar feelings and responses in their devotees. However, this observation is not a universal claim about the faith...
- Francis Su
- Pythagoreans and Their Legacy
- Medieval Developments
- (Early) Modernity
- Cantor and Infinity
The best known and most highly consequential ancient case is that of the Pythagoreans whose founder was both a mathematician and a religious leader. Around 530 B.C.E., Pythagoras began to attract disciples in southern Italy. The Pythagoreans saw (natural and rational) numbers as the essence of everything – things, relations, musical harmonies, and ...
Another Pythagorean achievement, not appreciated today, reigned supreme for centuries. It is the classification of mathematics into the discrete and the continuous with the former involving arithmetic and music, and the latter geometry and astronomy. This was the basis for the famous quadrivium of knowledge, which structured education, religious an...
Galileo’s famous dictum that the Book of Nature is “written in the language of mathematics” did show the scientific way independent of religion. It is common to treat Galileo as the initiator of modern secular science who was silenced for his anti-Church position. Yet he remained a believer and did not think his views were heretical. In his letter ...
Infinity, understood as a completed entity, was for a long time seen as representing the nature of God. It was basically a theological concept. Mathematicians used potentially infinite processes: extending lines, adding numbers, dividing geometrical objects. The proposals that actual infinities could be studied by mathematicians were not accepted. ...
- Stanisław Krajewski
- stankrajewski@uw.edu.pl
Mathematics and religion is a subdiscipline of the science and religion discipline, which studies the relations between mathematics and the metaphysical language of religions. We can distinguish three historical stages in the relations between mathematics and religion (Leach 2010 ).
- Javier Leach
- leach@sip.ucm.es
Aug 3, 2015 · The paper examines to what extent mathematics meets these criteria, juxtaposing the results with the case of religion. My argument is directed against a widespread view according to which belief in mathematics is clearly rationally acceptable whereas belief in religion is not.
Jun 27, 2019 · Because mathematics is the same all over the world, math can act as a universal language. A phrase or formula has the same meaning, regardless of another language that accompanies it. In this way, math helps people learn and communicate, even if other communication barriers exist.
- Anne Marie Helmenstine, Ph.D.
Since Boole, mathematics is understood as the creation and study of abstract patterns and structures; this replaces the old understanding of mathematics as the study of number and magnitude.
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In this article we look at theories of the structure of the universe and how religion reacted to major advances in the mathematical sciences on this issue.
