April 30, 2005

• City of God

  
  Kevin Baker in 2001 on

  E. L. Doctorow’s City of God:

  “…the nature of the cosmos
  (Augustine’s
  City of God?)”

  David Van Biema in Time Magazine
  (May 2, 2005, p. 43)

  

  on Augustine’s City of God:

  “A key concept in Augustine’s great
  The City of God is that the Christian church
  is superior and essentially alien

  to its earthly surroundings.”
  

  
  

   
   
  Click on the above for a rendition of
   
  Appalachian Spring.

  This year’s April – Mathematics Awareness Month -
  theme is “Mathematics and the Cosmos.”

  For my own views on this theme as it applies
  to education, see Wag the Dogma.

  For some other views, see this year’s
  Mathematics Awareness Month site.

  One of the authors at that site,
  which is mostly propaganda
  for the religion of Scientism,
  elsewhere quotes
  an ignorant pedagogue:

  “‘The discovery of non-Euclidean geometries

  contradicted the “absolute truth” view
  of the
  Platonists.’”

  – Sarah J. Greenwald,

     Associate Professor,

     Department of Mathematics

     Appalachian State University, Boone, NC

  Damned nonsense.  See Math16.com.

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