Equations from God; pure mathematics and Victorian faith.9780801885532Equations from God; pure mathematics and Victorian faith. Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. , Daniel J. Johns Hopkins Noun 1. Johns Hopkins - United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873) Hopkins 2. U. Press 2007 242 pages $50.00 Hardcover Johns Hopkins studies in the history of mathematics BL265 Cohen (history, George Mason U.) explores the comingling of science and religion in the Anglophone 19th century. His topics include sources of Victorian mathematical idealism, Benjamin Peirce Noun 1. Benjamin Peirce - United States mathematician and astronomer remembered for his studies of Uranus and Saturn and Neptune (1809-1880) Peirce and the divinity of mathematics at Harvard, George Boole and the genesis of symbolic logic, and Augustus de Morgan Augustus De Morgan (June 27, 1806 – March 18, 1871) was an Indian-born British mathematician and logician. He formulated De Morgan's laws and was the first to introduce the term, and make rigorous the idea of mathematical induction. and the logic of relations. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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