02353nam 2200577 a 450 991078274650332120230124182849.00-8018-9186-81-4356-9255-1(CKB)1000000000705370(EBL)3318376(OCoLC)923193060(SSID)ssj0000148842(PQKBManifestationID)11158509(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000148842(PQKBWorkID)10225733(PQKB)10788967(MiAaPQ)EBC3318376(OCoLC)300052307(MdBmJHUP)muse2602(Au-PeEL)EBL3318376(CaPaEBR)ebr10256379(EXLCZ)99100000000070537020060614d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEquations from God[electronic resource] pure mathematics and Victorian faith /Daniel J. CohenBaltimore Johns Hopkins University Press20071 online resource (255 p.)Johns Hopkins studies in the history of mathematicsDescription based upon print version of record.0-8018-8553-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-234) and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: The Allure of Pure Mathematics in the Victorian Age; CHAPTER ONE: Heavenly Symbols: Sources of Victorian Mathematical Idealism; CHAPTER TWO: God and Math at Harvard: Benjamin Peirce and the Divinity of Mathematics; CHAPTER THREE: George Boole and the Genesis of Symbolic Logic; CHAPTER FOUR: Augustus De Morgan and the Logic of Relations; CHAPTER FIVE: Earthly Calculations: Mathematics and Professionalism in the Late Nineteenth Century; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; YJohns Hopkins studies in the history of mathematics.Religion and scienceMathematicsReligion and science.Mathematics.261.5/5Cohen Daniel J(Daniel Jared),1968-1498287MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782746503321Equations from God3723802UNINA