This book uses modern mathematical metaphors to better understand religion and philosophy.The ancient Greeks held that “number rules the universe” and that “God ever geometrizes.” Here author Sarah Voss explores the historical connection between mathematics and religion in her provocative book, What Number Is God? Citing many examples, she shows that humankind has long used mathematics metaphorically to understand and make sense of life’s most fundamental questions.As Voss shows, contemporary society also uses metaphors of mathematics to investigate such issues, though in a fashion that is frequently overlooked or denied. The intentional use of contemporary mathematical ideas as metaphors for metaphysical notions can have a dramatic impact on modern society, in part by providing new symbols to replace old religious language which has lost its power to excite.

What Number Is God?: Metaphors, Metaphysics, Metamathematics, and the Nature of Things (S U N Y SERIES IN WESTERN ESOTERIC TRADITIONS)

Politics & Social Sciences

Voss, Sarah

Philosophy

State Univ of New York Pr

This book uses modern mathematical metaphors to better understand religion and philosophy. "Voss's work is probing, suggestive, easy to read. She's done masterful work of bringing together disparate fields--a nice blend of science, philosophy, and religion. It shows extremely good use of a wide-range of significant sources. Original. Sincere." --A. Pav, Eckerd College "The focus on science and religion alone would place this book into an arena of perennially significant works. The focus on mathematics, so widely misunderstood by both the initiated and the uninitiated, makes it all the more significant. The author also addresses the problem of metaphor in science, a topic of great concern in both literary theory circles and in the field of science and technology studies." -- Sal Restivo, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute This book uses modern mathematical metaphors to better understand religion and philosophy. The ancient Greeks held that "number rules the universe" and that "God ever geometrizes." Here author Sarah Voss explores the historical connection between mathematics and religion in her provocative book, What Number Is God? Citing many examples, she shows that humankind has long used mathematics metaphorically to understand and make sense of life's most fundamental questions. As Voss shows, contemporary society also uses metaphors of mathematics to investigate such issues, though in a fashion that is frequently overlooked or denied. The intentional use of contemporary mathematical ideas as metaphors for metaphysical notions can have a dramatic impact on modern society, in part by providing new symbols to replace old religious language which has lost its power to excite.

What Number Is God?: Metaphors, Metaphysics, Metamathematics, and the Nature of Things (Suny Series in Western Esoteric Traditions)

Religion & Spirituality

State University of New York Press

Entertaining as well as thoughtful, the two dozen easily read stories and essays in ZERO illustrate the notion of something from nothing. Richly illustrated with "real life" photographs by Dan Sullivan, the book is the first released in a series of four inspirational volumes, each of which gently reflects the mathematical symbolism of its title. Other titles in the series include ONE, TWO, and MANY. In ZERO, the reader is invited on a metaphorical tour of zero-concepts that will spur the spiritual imagination. Consider a society with zero evil; a city with zero fences; life with zero words, zero profanity, zero choices, or zero rainbows. First there is nothing. Then there is something. Non-zero, Being, life, existence, presence, light fullness. In-between nothing and something is creation. Highly creative itself, ZERO adds an "ordinary" element to the mystical world-view.

Zero: Stories and Essays (What Number Is God)

Sullivan, Dan

Cross Cultural Pubns/Crossroads

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Bella the Bulldog

Children's Books

Animals

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Skinner House Books

Poems from the Gravel Road

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Finishing Line Press

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