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- Title
"That Which Surpasses All Understanding": The Limitations of Human Thought.
- Authors
Nielsen, Mark J.
- Abstract
The article refers to the author's experience with Mormonism and the study of mathematics at the University of Washington in Seattle and provides an overview of mathematical history. The author tells how the study of mathematics, Mormon doctrine, the biblical book of Ecclesiastes, and religious faith became entwined in a philosophy of the limitations of human thought. Euclid's axiomatic method, the mathematics of infinity that was developed by Georg Cantor, the influence of calculus on intellectual progress, the implications of the Law of Mathematical Unapproachability for understanding the universe, the theorems of Kurt Gödel, and the Mormon spiritual sense of truth are mentioned.
- Subjects
MORMON cosmology; RELIGION &; mathematics; CHURCH of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints doctrines; MATHEMATICAL historiography; GODEL, Kurt, 1906-1978; EUCLID; CANTOR, Georg, 1845-1918; RELIGION &; science; PHILOSOPHY of mathematics
- Publication
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 2009, Vol 42, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
0012-2157
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5406/dialjmormthou.42.3.0001