Snezana Lawrence (Senior Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education, Mark McCartney (Senior Lecturer in Senior Lecturer in Mathematics

Gebundenes Buch

Mathematicians and Their Gods

Interactions Between Mathematics and Religious Beliefs

Beschreibung

This is a book on the relationship between mathematics and religious beliefs. This book shows that, throughout scientific history, mathematics has been used to make sense of the 'big' questions of life, and that religious beliefs sometimes drove mathematicians to do mathematics to help them make sense of the world

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9780198703051
• ISBN-10: 0198703058
• Artikelnr.: 42396253