THE MATHEMATICS OF THE SOUL
June 23, 2010
Soul, nothing but infinity closing, constantly.
-Phil Cousineau
In Plato’s “Myth of Er” the souls, having left their dead bodies behind on earth, line up to choose their new lives according to lot. Those who draw the first numbers receive first choice from the immense pool of possible lives. The departed souls, in other words, rely upon a random process of ordering, i.e., on mathematics, to help determine the nature of their immortality. But mathematics is more than a practical aid to the soul. To Plato and the ancient Greeks, indeed, to a surprising number of individuals throughout history, mathematics has been a way of defining and understanding the soul…. To read this full entry, go to Sarah’s Notebook.
pizine 
March 24, 2011 at 12:46 pm
Hello Professor Vass,
It is an honor to write to someone so knowledgable in the intersection of mathematics and religion.
I am a practicing Muslim and I wanted to share a fascinating set of mathematical miracles in the Qur’an.
The math miracles are underneath the scientific miracles.
Please see http://www.quranmiracles.com
I would greatly appreciate if you can share with me what you think of the mathematical miracles in lexical concordance section and the mathematics and 19 section.
Peace,
Omer Abid, MD, MPH