Mathematics on Ice
Jim Holt: Infinities without End, 27 August 2009
Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity
by Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor.
Harvard, 256 pp., £19.95, April 2009,978 0 674 03293 4 Show More
by Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor.
Harvard, 256 pp., £19.95, April 2009,
“... And it was the mystics, they claim, who better served the cause of mathematical progress. Loren Graham, an American historian of science, and Jean-Michel Kantor, a French mathematician, argue that the intellectual milieu of the French mathematicians was dominated by Descartes, for whom clarity and distinctness were warrants of truth, and by ... ”