Math and God
Math and God are signs and hints of God in mathematics. This is of particular interest to those fascinated with numbers.
Many have called mathematics the language of God.
Prime numbers appear to have a spiritual nature that has attracted much commentary for centuries, including Leonard Euler. The surprisingly infinite, never-ending quality of prime numbers -- which was proven by Euclid relying on a contradiction and more directly in 1730[1] -- suggests a divinity, similar to the infinite number of angels. Meanwhile, whether there is an infinite number of twin primes is one of the greatest unsolved problems in math.
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Prime numbers
The ability of mathematically uneducated idiot savants and others to identify large prime numbers is a continuing mystery, in the absence of a spiritual explanation. Some scholarly articles have recognized this mystery and attempted to explain it with based on spatial patterns, but there is no known pattern for prime numbers.[2] The book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985, then made into an opera!) gives an example of twins having this ability.
It is impossible to explain this in a materialistic way. Apparently prime numbers have some sort of spiritual attribute, more quickly recognized by some uneducated people than educated ones.
Prime numbers have always held a mystical fascination among many mathematicians, particularly number theorists, more so than other attributes of numbers. No pattern or algorithm can be found for prime numbers. Leonard Euler stated:
| “ | Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.[3] | ” |
The mystery of whether there are an infinite number of twin primes remains unsolved to this day, and is perhaps the greatest simply stated unproven theorem in all of mathematics.
Infinity
The existence of infinity indicates the existence of God. Much of the New Testament is really the logic of infinity.
The infinite number of prime numbers is particularly suggestive of God, by demonstrating a fresh originality that extends forever.
Infinity times Zero
"Such a really remarkable discovery. I wanted your opinion on it. You know the formula m over naught equals infinity, m being any positive number? [m/0 = ∞]. Well, why not reduce the equation to a simpler form by multiplying both sides by naught? In which case you have m equals infinity times naught [m = ∞ x 0]. That is to say, a positive number is the product of zero and infinity. Doesn't that demonstrate the creation of the Universe by an infinite power out of nothing? Doesn't it?"
Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point, (1928), Chapter XI.[4]
Zero
Negative numbers
Maximums and minimums
Leonard Euler stated:
| “ | Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum.[5] | ” |
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References
- ↑ https://t5k.org/notes/proofs/infinite/
- ↑ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8040161/#:~:text=Several%20idiots%20savants%20who%20were,skills%20to%20perform%20such%20calculations.
- ↑ https://www.azquotes.com/quote/91288
- ↑ quoted in chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1523&context=hmnj
- ↑ https://www.azquotes.com/quote/715436
