Comments on: Living by numbers http://www.forthefainthearted.com/2009/11/22/living-by-numbers/ A Church of Ireland Rector in rural Leinster Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:31:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Ian Poulton http://www.forthefainthearted.com/2009/11/22/living-by-numbers/comment-page-1/#comment-2566 Ian Poulton Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:07:30 +0000 http://www.forthefainthearted.com/?p=3835#comment-2566 There was a strong sense in some Jewish spirituality of numbers having deeper meanings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gematria There was a strong sense in some Jewish spirituality of numbers having deeper meanings:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gematria

]]> By: kerryview http://www.forthefainthearted.com/2009/11/22/living-by-numbers/comment-page-1/#comment-2564 kerryview Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:00:23 +0000 http://www.forthefainthearted.com/?p=3835#comment-2564 You almost said it. Numbers are our way of seeing the natural beauty of the world, the universe, everything. We have a natural love for things numerical and mathematical. What is music but another such view? What is Beauty? I ask a lot of questions, but I honestly, deeply believe that (among other matters) numbers are the braille indentations which allow us glimpses of a deep fact. The Bible is full of numbers! Look at the sunday notice board for hymn numbers! Everywhere! You almost said it. Numbers are our way of seeing the natural beauty of the world, the universe, everything. We have a natural love for things numerical and mathematical. What is music but another such view? What is Beauty? I ask a lot of questions, but I honestly, deeply believe that (among other matters) numbers are the braille indentations which allow us glimpses of a deep fact.
The Bible is full of numbers! Look at the sunday notice board for hymn numbers! Everywhere!

]]> By: Ian Poulton http://www.forthefainthearted.com/2009/11/22/living-by-numbers/comment-page-1/#comment-2562 Ian Poulton Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:27:21 +0000 http://www.forthefainthearted.com/?p=3835#comment-2562 Does zero count as a natural number? I was always suspicious of it. I fear the numbers used by the "Quants" to create the economic bubble defied all laws of logic. Does zero count as a natural number? I was always suspicious of it.

I fear the numbers used by the “Quants” to create the economic bubble defied all laws of logic.

]]> By: Joc http://www.forthefainthearted.com/2009/11/22/living-by-numbers/comment-page-1/#comment-2561 Joc Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:37:45 +0000 http://www.forthefainthearted.com/?p=3835#comment-2561 Leopold Kronecker, the great mathematician, once said, "God made the natural numbers; all else is the work of man." He was talking of the positive integers, and I remember the wonder of discovering that all the other numbers we use - negative numbers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers - and all their properties, may be constructed from them using only the laws of logic. Leopold Kronecker, the great mathematician, once said, “God made the natural numbers; all else is the work of man.” He was talking of the positive integers, and I remember the wonder of discovering that all the other numbers we use – negative numbers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers – and all their properties, may be constructed from them using only the laws of logic.

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