All is Numbers, is still echoing from the walls of the White City, when once the great Pythagoras said it on an early sunny morning to his disciples.
No great discoveries in history every made, without the intervention of this mystical ray we call Mathematics.
Einstein in his general relativity theory, to prove that the path of a ray of light, in the presence of a gravitational field, is curved and never straight used intensely the non-Euclidean geometry. The renaissance artists used Geometric principles passionately in their important paintings such as The Disputation of the Sacrament, by Raphael and the famous Mona Lisa of Leonardo. Not only in art but mostly in architect from the early days of the Egyptians and Babylon’s and the ingenuity the Pyramids were constructed with.
Even the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson structured it on Geometric Euclidian logic which is what gives it much of its power as a defense of liberty. He used reason to defend liberty, he used logic to define equality. For me, that makes Jefferson a mathematical genius.
Mathematics is the compass any successful philosophy should use to achieve its full potentials, to determine the nature of our universe in its time-space and way beyond, seeking higher ground for religion and a crystal clear truth, were nothing can be hidden from the eyes of numbers.
All great philosophers or most of them were greater mathematicians, Since Zeno of Elea’s (490 BC – ca. 430 BC) paradoxes using Achilles and the Tortoise ”In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.” Mathematics and Philosophy made their alchemical wedding, crowning Sophia the Queen of Reason in the most blissful of ways.
Plato and his famous Geometric forms, Plato the most celebrated of all Philosophers and a student of Socrates, was enthused by