Tag: mathematics
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Edward Dolnick: The Clockwork Universe
Quotes. Mathematics as Escape. Newton had Cracked the Code. Scientists and History. God-the-mathematician and Great Chain of Being. The Royal Society of London. Leeuwenhoek and sperm cells.
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Free Will and Mathematics
Abstract of the book – Free Will and Mathematics. Two quotes from Collingwood – An Essay on Metaphysics, related to this theme.
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Two Mathematicians in a Bunker and Existence of Pi
A thought experiment to discuss whether Pi exists. Physicalism vs. Platonism.