Book ID: CBB000951635

Naming Infinity: The True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity (2009)

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Graham, Loren R. (Author)
Kantor, Jean-Michel (Author)


Harvard University Press


Publication Date: 2009
Physical Details: x + 239 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review Gray, Jeremy (2010) Review of "Naming Infinity: The True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 234). unapi

Review Dauben, Joseph W. (2012) Review of "Naming Infinity: The True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity". Historia Mathematica (pp. 341-346). unapi

Review Benbow, Peter K. (2013) Review of "Naming Infinity: The True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity". Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (p. 431). unapi

Essay Review Hall, Karl (2012) Worshiping Names: Russian Mathematics and Problems of Philosophy and Psychology in the Silver Age. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 317-320). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Kantor, Jean-Michel
Graham, Loren R.
Gambetta, Emanuele
Renato Betti
Zellini, Paolo
Yao, Fang
Journals
Azimuth
Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu (Studies in the History of Natural Sciences)
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
Science in Context
Science and Christian Belief
Russian History
Publishers
Gangemi Editore
UTET
Nauka
Mimesis
Elsevier
Cambridge University Press
Concepts
Mathematics
Science and religion
Philosophy
Mysticism
Theology
Infinity
People
Florenskij, Pavel
Pythagoras
Kepler, Johannes
James, William
Cantor, Georg Ferdinand Ludwig
Markov, Andrei Andreevich
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
Medieval
Ancient
Early modern
Places
Russia
France
China
Soviet Union
St. Petersburg (Russia)
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