All Mathematicians Share... A Sense Of Amazement

The Greatest Scandal Of The Century In American Psychiatry ... Is The Growing Mania Among Thousands Of Inept Therapists, Family Counselors, And Social Workers For Arousing False Memories Of Childhoood Sexual Abuse.

There Is Still A Difference Between Something And Nothing, But It Is Purely Geometrical And There Is Nothing Behind The Geometry.

If All Sentient Beings In The Universe Disappeared, There Would Remain A Sense In Which Mathematical Objects And Theorems Would Continue To Exist Even Though There Would Be No One Around To Write Or Talk About Them. Huge Prime Numbers Would Continue To Be Prime, Even If No One Had Proved Them Prime.

As Far As I Know, Clifford Pickover Is The First Mathematician To Write A Book About Areas Where Math And Theology Overlap. Are There Mathematical Proofs Of God? Who Are The Great Mathematicians Who Believed In A Deity? Does Numerology Lead Anywhere When Applied To Sacred Literature? Pickover Covers These And Many Other Off-trail Topics With His Usual Verve, Humor, And Clarity. And Along The Way The Reader Will Learn A Great Deal Of Serious Mathematics.

Politicians, Real-estate Agents, Used-car Salesmen, And Advertising Copy-writers Are Expected To Stretch Facts In Self-serving Directions, But Scientists Who Falsify Their Results Are Regarded By Their Peers As Committing An Inexcusable Crime. Yet The Sad Fact Is That The History Of Science Swarms With Cases Of Outright Fakery And Instances Of Scientists Who Unconsciously Distorted Their Work By Seeing It Through Lenses Of Passionately Held Beliefs.