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| Mar 31, 2014 at 21:38 | comment | added | user230 | Very very nice answer Ken! I will add an answer about set theory and Cantor. About Omar Kahyyam, let me to add some points. There are some signs of skepticism in Kayyam's famous book of poems "Rubaiyat". Also he protests to God about his hard and meaningless life in several poems. Based on these facts, historians usually don't categorize Khayyam as a religious Muslim. | |
| Mar 31, 2014 at 18:38 | comment | added | Kyle Strand | Cantor's a particularly interesting case, since he apparently thought the church would be grateful to him for exploring the nature of infinity (and thus of God), but it seems that most of the clergy at the time actually had a fairly negative attitude toward his work. | |
| Mar 31, 2014 at 17:54 | comment | added | Jon Bannon | This is quite a nice approach. Along these lines, check out the recent book Naming Infinity: amazon.com/Naming-Infinity-Religious-Mathematical-Creativity/dp/… | |
| Mar 31, 2014 at 13:40 | history | answered | Ken W. Smith | CC BY-SA 3.0 |