Mathematics and
Theology
by Steven H. Cullinane
October 30, 2008
"This is not mathematics,
it is theology!"
--
Paul
Gordan on
a proof by Hilbert
"There is a pleasantly
discursive treatment
of Pontius Pilate's unanswered question
'What is truth?'"
-- H. S. M. Coxeter, 1987, introduction
to Richard J. Trudeau's remarks on
the "Story Theory" of truth
as opposed to
the "Diamond Theory" of truth
in
The Non-Euclidean Revolution
Coxeter, whom some have
styled "king
of geometry," was aware in 1987 of the existence of
my 1976 monograph on geometry titled "
Diamond
Theory." His introduction
to Trudeau's remarks, which use that phrase with an entirely different
meaning,
may, therefore, have been
mala fide.
