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Author:   Snezana Lawrence (Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education, Bath Spa University) ,  Mark McCartney (Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Ulster)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9780198703051

ISBN 10:   0198703058
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   23 July 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"1: Mark McCartney: Introduction 2: Andrew Gregory: The Pythagoreans: Number and Numerology 3: Allan Chapman: Divine light 4: Owen Gingerich: Kepler and his Trinitarian Cosmology 5: Robin Wilson and John Fauvel: The Lull before the storm: combinatorics in the Renaissance 6: Jean-Pierre Brach: Mystical Arithmetic in the Renaissance: From Biblical Hermeneutics to a Philosophical Tool 7: Rob Iliffe: Newton, God, and the mathematics of the Two Books 8: Massimo Mazzotti: Maria Gaetana Agnesi, mathematician of God 9: Snezana Lawrence: Capital G for Geometry: Masonic lore and the history of geometry 10: Mark Richards: Charles Dodgeson's Work for God 11: Elizabeth Lewis: P. G. Tait, Balfour Stewart and The Unseen Universe 12: Melanie Bayley: Faith and Flatland 13: C Anthony Anderson: Gödel's ""proof"" for the existence of God"

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This text has potential to fill the void of accessible essays detailing the relationship between an individual and their god. --MAA Reviews

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Snezana Lawrence is a Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education at Bath Spa University. She has been involved with a number of national and international initiatives to promote the use of the history of mathematics in mathematics education. Snezana is on the Advisory Board of the History and Pedagogy of Mathematics Group (an affiliate of the International Commission on Mathematics Instruction), and is Mathematics Programme Director of the Prince's Teaching Institute Schools' Programme. She in on the Editorial Boards of BSHM Bulletin (as Associate Editor from January 2013) and Mathematics Today. Her website mathsisgoodforyou.com has attracted more than 4 million visitors since its launch in 2005. Mark McCartney is a Senior Lecturer in mathematics at the University of Ulster. His research and scholarly interests include nonlinear dynamics, mathematical modelling and the history of science. He is the editor (with Andrew Whitaker) of Physicists of Ireland (IOP, 2003) and (with Andrew Whitaker and Raymond Flood) of Kelvin - Life, Labours and Legacy (OUP, 2008) and James Clerk Maxwell - Perspectives on His Life and Work (OUP, 2014).

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