PI in the Sky
Subtitle: Counting, Thinking, and Being
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: October 20, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780316082594
Subjects: History & Philosophy; Mathematics / General; Mathematical Physics; Science; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics
First sentence: A mystery lurks beneath the magic carpet of science, something that scientists have not been telling, something too shocking to mention except in rather esoterically refined circles: that at the root of the success of twentieth-century science there lies a deeply 'religious' belief-a belief in an unseen and perfect transcendental world that controls us in an unexplained way, yet upon which we seem to exert no influence whatsoever.