Redeeming mathematics / Poythress, Vern S. 

Public ISBD Titre : Redeeming mathematics : a god-centered approach Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Poythress, Vern S., Auteur Editeur : Wheaton, Illinois : Crossway Année de publication : ©2015 Importance : 197 p. Présentation : illustrations Format : 22 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4335-4110-0 Note générale : Includes bibliographical references and index Langues : Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Bible -- Evidences, authority, etc. Mathematics in the Bible Mathematics--Religious aspects--Christianity Index. décimale : BS 540 Résumé : What does God have to do with mathematics? Everything. In this book, Vern Poythress argues that the harmony of abstract mathematical truths, the physical world of things, and the personal world of our thinking depends on the existence of the Christian God. Poythress shows that these distinct "perspectives" on mathematics cohere because all three find their origin in God's consistent character and nature. Whether Note de contenu : Introduction : Why God? -- Part one : Basic questions. God and mathematics -- The one and the many -- Naturalism -- The nature of numbers -- Part two : Our knowledge of mathematics. Human capabilities -- Necessity and contingency -- Part three : Simple mathematical structures. Addition -- The idea of what is next -- Deriving arithmetic from succession -- Multiplication -- Symmetries -- Sets -- Part four : Other kinds of numbers. Division and fractions -- Subtraction and negative numbers -- Irrational numbers -- Imaginary numbers -- Infinity -- Part five : Geometry and higher mathematics. Space and geometry -- Higher mathematics -- Appendixes. Secular theories about the foundations of mathematics -- Christian modifications of philosophies of mathematics -- Deriving arithmetic -- Mathematical induction -- Elementary set theory. Redeeming mathematics : a god-centered approach [texte imprimé] / Poythress, Vern S., Auteur . - Wheaton, Illinois : Crossway, ©2015 . - 197 p. : illustrations ; 22 cm. ISBN : 978-1-4335-4110-0 Includes bibliographical references and index Langues : Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Bible -- Evidences, authority, etc. Mathematics in the Bible Mathematics--Religious aspects--Christianity Index. décimale : BS 540 Résumé : What does God have to do with mathematics? Everything. In this book, Vern Poythress argues that the harmony of abstract mathematical truths, the physical world of things, and the personal world of our thinking depends on the existence of the Christian God. Poythress shows that these distinct "perspectives" on mathematics cohere because all three find their origin in God's consistent character and nature. Whether Note de contenu : Introduction : Why God? -- Part one : Basic questions. God and mathematics -- The one and the many -- Naturalism -- The nature of numbers -- Part two : Our knowledge of mathematics. Human capabilities -- Necessity and contingency -- Part three : Simple mathematical structures. Addition -- The idea of what is next -- Deriving arithmetic from succession -- Multiplication -- Symmetries -- Sets -- Part four : Other kinds of numbers. Division and fractions -- Subtraction and negative numbers -- Irrational numbers -- Imaginary numbers -- Infinity -- Part five : Geometry and higher mathematics. Space and geometry -- Higher mathematics -- Appendixes. Secular theories about the foundations of mathematics -- Christian modifications of philosophies of mathematics -- Deriving arithmetic -- Mathematical induction -- Elementary set theory.

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