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Literary Evidence For Roman Arithmetic With Fractions, David W. Maher, John F. Makowski
Literary Evidence For Roman Arithmetic With Fractions, David W. Maher, John F. Makowski
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Mathematical Constance (A Poem Dedicated To Constance Reid), Arthur T. Benjamin
Mathematical Constance (A Poem Dedicated To Constance Reid), Arthur T. Benjamin
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Mathematical Constance (A Poem Dedicated to Constance Reid)
I think that I shall never see
A constant lovelier than e,
Whose digits are too great too state,
They're 2.71828…
And e has such amazing features
It's loved by all (but mostly teachers).
With all of e's great properties
Most integrals are done with … ease.
Theorems are proved by fools like me
But only Euler could make an e.
I suppose, though, if I had to try
To choose another constant, I
Might offer i or phi or pi.
But none of those would satisfy.
Of all the …
Abstracting Aristotle’S Philosophy Of Mathematics, John J. Cleary
Abstracting Aristotle’S Philosophy Of Mathematics, John J. Cleary
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In the history of science perhaps the most influential Aristotelian division was that
between mathematics and physics. From our modern perspective this seems like an unfortunate deviation from the Platonic unification of the two disciplines, which guided Kepler and Galileo towards the modern scientific revolution. By contrast, Aristotle’s sharp distinction between the disciplines seems to have led to a barren scholasticism in physics, together with an arid instrumentalism in Ptolemaic astronomy. On the positive side, however, astronomy was liberated from commonsense realism for the conceptual experiments of Aristarchus of Samos, whose heliocentric hypothesis was not adopted by later astronomers because …
Mathematics As Worship, David J. Stucki
Mathematics As Worship, David J. Stucki
Mathematics Faculty Scholarship
This paper treats worship in a broad, inclusive sense as the primary and necessary response of human beings to their creator. It provides a brief overview of the relationship between mathematics and theology from the Pythagoreans to the present. It argues that all knowledge is contingent upon faith and thus that contemplation of mathematical insights can lead to worship of God.