A religious side to math?

[sidetrack]

Here is an arguement for the existance of God by the mathematician Kurt Godel that I would like to share.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_ontological_proof
It says on wikipedia that " It is in a line of development that goes back to Anselm of Canterbury. St. Anselm’s ontological argument".The article has some complicated stuff like modal logic.

There is also like a theological representation of omniscience in this article
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omniscience#Theological_representations

and I find the naming of thisthing with infinite surface area but encloses finite volume( which is also known as Torricelli’s trumpet) interesting
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriels_Horn

 

[Charlemagne_II]

It’s interesting that Blaise Pascal, also a great mathematician, found a sort of mathematical argument for God as well. It’s called the wager argument and is based on playing the odds that God does or does not exist. Pascal had a great interest in the mathematics of probability as applied to gambling.

Just an aside here. Good luck with your thread!

 

[Anselm33]

Here is an arguement for the existance of God by the mathematician Kurt Godel that I would like to share.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_ontological_proof
It says on wikipedia that " It is in a line of development that goes back to Anselm of Canterbury. St. Anselm’s ontological argument".The article has some complicated stuff like modal logic.

There is also like a theological representation of omniscience in this article
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omniscience#Theological_representations

and I find the naming of thisthing with infinite surface area but encloses finite volume( which is also known as Torricelli’s trumpet) interesting
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriels_Horn

This is a topic that’s been posted before (see “The God of the Mathematicians”,forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=499488
But that’s ok. Some mathematicians (for example Roger Penrose) claim that mathematical ideas exist in a separate realm, the realm of Platonic Ideals (see “Shadows of the Mind”). Other mathematicians have said that mathematics is a gift from God:
Kronecker (inventor of the Kronecker delta):

“The integers are a gift from God; all else is from man.”

and Hermann Weyl, one of the great mathematicians of the 20th Century said

“God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil
exists since its consistency cannot be proved”

referring of course to Godel’s Theorem…