Re: Religion in math.
From: Robert Israel (israel_at_math.ubc.ca)
Date: 10/14/04
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Date: 14 Oct 2004 18:32:39 GMT
In article <doftm05j0a0ef8jusuv98kdb2pl55vm5em@4ax.com>,
Angus Rodgers <angus_prune@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:24:13 +1300, Gib Bogle
><bogle@ihug.too.much.spam.co.nz> wrote:
>>Yes. It is really just a bit of frivolity. Who could
>>take seriously the concept of religion in mathematics,
>>or mathematics in religion?
>Ramanujan, for one.
Would you care to expand on that? As far as I'm aware,
Ramanujan took his religion seriously (at least in terms
of observance; Hardy disagreed with Seshu Aiyar and
Ramachaundra Rao about whether he took the intellectual
part seriously), but I'm not aware of his involvement
with "religion in mathematics, or mathematics in religion".
Robert Israel israel@math.ubc.ca
Department of Mathematics http://www.math.ubc.ca/~israel
University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada
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