Indeed, There Is Something To Be Said

If God Creates A World Of Particles And Waves, Dancing In Obedience To Mathematical And Physical Laws, Who Are We To Say That He Cannot Make Use Of Those Laws To Cover The Surface Of A Small Planet With Living Creatures?

As Far As I Know, Clifford Pickover Is The First Mathematician To Write A Book About Areas Where Math And Theology Overlap. Are There Mathematical Proofs Of God? Who Are The Great Mathematicians Who Believed In A Deity? Does Numerology Lead Anywhere When Applied To Sacred Literature? Pickover Covers These And Many Other Off-trail Topics With His Usual Verve, Humor, And Clarity. And Along The Way The Reader Will Learn A Great Deal Of Serious Mathematics.

If You Ask Me To Tell You Anything About The Nature Of What Lies Beyond The Phaneron… My Answer Is “how Should I Know?”… I Am Not Dismayed By Ultimate Mysteries… I Can No More Grasp What Is Behind Such Questions As My Cat Can Understand What Is Behind The Clatter I Make While I Type This Paragraph.

If Present Trends Continue, Our Country May Soon Find Itself Far Behind Many Other Nations In Both Science And Technology Nations Where, If You Inform Strangers That You Are A Mathematician, They Respond With Admiration And Not By Telling You How Much They Hated Math In School, And How They Sure Could Use You To Balance Their Checkbooks.

Consider A Cow. A Cow Doesn't Have The Problem-solving Skill Of A Chimpanzee, Which Has Discovered How To Get Termites Out Of The Ground By Putting A Stick Into A Hole. Evolution Has Developed The Brain's Ability To Solve Puzzles, And At The Same Time Has Produced In Our Brain A Pleasure Of Solving Problems.