The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural History Psychology & Hypnosis ”―The Boston Globe

”―The Boston Globe

even as she battled psychological crises and carved out a solitary existence in the American Southwest

Although the methods vary

With an epilogue by Joseph Masheck

The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural History Psychology & Hypnosis ”―The Boston GlobeIs mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe? The complexity of mathematics its abstract rules and obscure symbols can seem very distant from the everyday. There are those things that are real and present, it is supposed, and then there are mathematical concepts: creations of our mind, mysterious tools for those unengaged with the world. Yet, from its most remote history and deepest