![]() God, therefore, was the ultimate mathematician who had founded a vast and complex uni verse of mathematical relationships wherein nature acted according to His perfect and inexorable law. Later, Renaissance scientists such as Kepler and Galileo held that the true causes of natural phenomena could be formulated in accordance with mathematical laws. ![]() Even before Euclid, as demonstrated in the pre-Christian Greek drama, the workings of fate dic tated human experience in the same way as the workings of deductive reason ing dictate rigorous mathematical conclusions. Their interrelationships allow us to perceive, locate, and establish structures in the world - structures that provide physical as well as moral comfort, because once proven they must be forever true. Mathe matical truths are deduced logically and relied upon with complete confi dence. THE CRUEL MATHEMATICS OF THE DUCHESS OF MALFI R IC K B O W E R S University of Alberta Since the time of Euclid, the principles of mathematics have been estab lished as the principles of truth in enlightened European thought. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]()
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