Mathematicians and their Gods Interactions between mathematics and religious beliefs

Snezana Lawrence, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education, Bath Spa University,Mark McCartney, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Ulster

Snezana Lawrence is a Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education at Bath Spa University. She has been involved with a number of national and international initiatives to promote the use of the history of mathematics in mathematics education. Snezana is on the Advisory Board of the History and Pedagogy of Mathematics Group (an affiliate of the International Commission on Mathematics Instruction), and is Mathematics Programme Director of the Prince's Teaching Institute Schools' Programme. She in on the Editorial Boards of BSHM Bulletin (as Associate Editor from January 2013) and Mathematics Today. Her website mathsisgoodforyou.com has attracted more than 4 million visitors since its launch in 2005.

Mark McCartney is a Senior Lecturer in mathematics at the University of Ulster. His research and scholarly interests include nonlinear dynamics, mathematical modelling and the history of science. He is the editor (with Andrew Whitaker) of Physicists of Ireland (IOP, 2003) and (with Andrew Whitaker and Raymond Flood) of Kelvin - Life, Labours and Legacy (OUP, 2008) and James Clerk Maxwell - Perspectives on His Life and Work (OUP, 2014).

1. Introduction, Mark McCartney
2. The Pythagoreans: Number and Numerology, Andrew Gregory
3. Divine light, Allan Chapman
4. Kepler and his Trinitarian Cosmology, Owen Gingerich
5. The Lull before the storm: combinatorics in the Renaissance, Robin Wilson and John Fauvel
6. Mystical Arithmetic in the Renaissance: From Biblical Hermeneutics to a Philosophical Tool, Jean-Pierre Brach
7. Newton, God, and the mathematics of the Two Books, Rob Iliffe
8. Maria Gaetana Agnesi, mathematician of God, Massimo Mazzotti
9. Capital G for Geometry: Masonic lore and the history of geometry, Snezana Lawrence
10. Charles Dodgeson's Work for God, Mark Richards
11. P. G. Tait, Balfour Stewart and The Unseen Universe, Elizabeth Lewis
12. Faith and Flatland, Melanie Bayley
13. Godel's "proof" for the existence of God, C Anthony Anderson