Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity by Jean-Michel Kantor, Loren R. Graham

Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity

Jean-Michel Kantor, Loren R. Graham

239 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics religion challenging informative slow-paced

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In 1913, Russian imperial marines stormed an Orthodox monastery at Mt. Athos, Greece, to haul off monks engaged in a dangerously heretical practice known as Name Worshipping. Exiled to remote Russian outposts, the monks and their mystical movement...

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