One Would Be Hard Put To Find

Biographical History, As Taught In Our Public Schools, Is Still Largely A History Of Boneheads; Ridiculous Kings And Queens, Paranoid Political Leaders, Compulsive Voyagers, Ignorant General The Flotsam And Jetsam Of Historical Currents. The Men Who Radically Altered History, The Great Scientists And Mathematicians, Are Seldom Mentioned, If At All.

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.

Mathematics Is Not Only Real, But It Is The Only Reality.

If You Ask Me To Tell You Anything About The Nature Of What Lies Beyond The Phaneron… My Answer Is “how Should I Know?”… I Am Not Dismayed By Ultimate Mysteries… I Can No More Grasp What Is Behind Such Questions As My Cat Can Understand What Is Behind The Clatter I Make While I Type This Paragraph.

Modern Science Should Indeed Arouse In All Of Us A Humility Before The Immensity Of The Unexplored And A Tolerance For Crazy Hypotheses.