Consulting the divine

John Kellermeier

pp. 97-113

in: Swapna Mukhopadhyay, Wolff-Michael Roth (eds), Alternative forms of knowing (in) mathematics, Rotterdam, SensePublishers, 2012

Abstract

What has happened? What is happening? What will happen? These are questions that humans have always sought to answer, in order to interpret and live in the world around them. It is not so much a matter of what is real but what we think is real and what model of reality helps us to survive and thrive. Mathematical thinking has always been a part of this.