Mathematics: Exploring Beauty: Trinitarian Perspectives

By James D. Nickel

This book explores the nature of beauty as it relates to mathematics in all its facets.We begin with a discussion of Western Education and its neglect of the component of beauty, especially in relationship to mathematics and physics. We next explore the thesis that the ultimate ground of beauty is the interpenetrating personal nature of the Triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the mutual indwelling of self-giving glory of one to another, i.e., the beauty of perichoresis. It is the beauty of this God, the beauty of inter-Trinitarian relationships, that forms the proper understanding of the rationality of the universe, both macro and micro, a rationality of proximate perichoretic beauty.The historical development of mathematics exposes its deep and interactive relationship to the universe, i.e., how it works in marvelous coordination. Mathematics forms a bridge from the reality of an objective universe to the mind of human beings. Both the physical universe and the human mind have been created and are currently sustained out from the unimaginable wonder and beauty of the Triune Creator.The heart of the book is an exploration of the multi-faceted wonders of mathematics, of its perichoretic interconnections both within its internal structure and as revelatory of physical realities. It is in these connections that we discern mathematical beauty. Some wonders that we put under a microscope are the basic operations of arithmetic, geometric forms and formulae, the Fibonacci Sequence, functional analysis and the nature of limits in both Differential and Integral Calculus, Pythagorean musical ratios, the Pythagorean Theorem, the Prime Number Theorem, the wonders of Kepler's Three Laws of Planetary motion, Newton's Inverse-Square Law, Gravitation and the Moon, Differential equations and the calculation of Escape Velocity, and Leonhard Euler's Crown Jewel of mathematics.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1732525110
• ISBN13: 9781732525115
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Sound Mind Press
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"