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Mathematical Thought Anonymous Thu Jun 2 18:39:59 2022 No.20462980 [Reply] [Original]

Can you guys recommend me books on the history of mathematical thought, how it evolved, what each author was investigating and how does it relates to metaphysics?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 18:43:28 2022 No.20462994 >>20462980 Math did not exist before Hilbert.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 18:46:43 2022 No.20463014 >>20462980 >how does it relates to metaphysics Only relevant book here is the critique of pure reason.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 18:51:32 2022 No.20463033 >>20462980 That's one of the most Masonic images I have ever seen.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 18:58:37 2022 No.20463063 >>20462980 >how does it relates to metaphysics? Math is metaphysics. Metaphysics isn't only math.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 18:59:06 2022 No.20463066 Morris Kline's history of mathematics and his very good book The Loss of Certainty Patterns of Discovery is good for the geometrical-mechanical revolution of Galileo and Descartes

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 19:00:07 2022 No.20463072 >>20463066 Forgot also to mention Burtt's Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science If you read that and Patterns you'll have a lot to go on Duhem also did a ton on the intersection of math, metaphysics, and physics

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 19:07:11 2022 No.20463110 >>20463033 It's the other way around, Anon. Masons absorbed Pythagoras.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 19:13:54 2022 No.20463137 File: 7 KB, 225x225, 1653451901276.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20463033

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 19:16:37 2022 No.20463148 >>20463110 That image has iconography specific to FMs though. Most obviously the two pillars.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 19:31:10 2022 No.20463226 >>20463066 >>20463072 Thanks Anon, I've read about Kline and it seems to be exactly what I'm looking for. That will be a quite interesting journey, it seems.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 2 23:14:45 2022 No.20464258 >>20463033 Ah Christian stupidity never fails to make me groan

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 00:35:06 2022 No.20464594 >>20464258 >there isn't a single reference to that anon being an actual Christian Holy fuck you guys are insane, please get help Christianity lives rent free inside your head

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 01:33:43 2022 No.20464829 >>20464594 Says the guy who is afraid of masons

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 01:45:53 2022 No.20464875 >>20463110 i always knew math was satanic

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 06:18:23 2022 No.20465767 >>20462980 The begining of The Decline of the West and Klein's Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 07:16:03 2022 No.20465882 >>20464258 Yeah I am not Christian or even religious.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 3 14:46:21 2022 No.20467156 >>20462994 How so?

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