Beauty And Mathematics | Professor Alexander Pruss
The Thomistic Institute
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The History of Math by Ziel Melzite
Ziel Melzite was an old retired professor when he was a math grad student. He argues that the Greeks were hampered in their mathematics by the fact that they were kind of afraid of infinity. And so he felt like that Christianity was actually important to the growth of the practice. The book manuscript has never been published and I don't even know if a copy exists anymore because the author has died.
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