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Review: Is God a Mathematician? by Mario Livio

How are ideas about God, existence and mathematics related? Livio makes his case...
Review: Is God a Mathematician? by Mario Livio
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THEOLOGIANS have God, philosophers existence, and scientists mathematics. makes the case for how these three ideas might be related. He doesn’t give definitive answers, but lays out what Archimedes, Newton, Gödel and others discovered about maths, nature and the design (if any) of the cosmos. He is interested too in the old debate about whether humans discover mathematical theorems that already exist, or merely construct a logical, self-consistent system. Livio’s rich history gives the discussions human force and verve.

Is God a Mathematician?

Mario Livio

Simon & Schuster

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