The Quality of Numbers 1-31

Wolfgang Held

• Editorial: Floris Books
• Año: 2012
• ISBN:
  9780863159701
• Categoría: Matematica
• Categoría: Storia e filosofia della matematica

One sun, two parents, three meals a day, four seasons, five fingers … every child soon discovers that lots of things in life have an inherent number attached to them. Just as five individual fingers become something much more important and powerful when combined together in a hand, these numbers are often much more than a simple addition of their parts: they are intrinsically connected to the object, expressing a particular quality. In this readable little book, Wolfgang Held explores the fascinating qualities of numbers one to thirty-one. The Pythagorean School in ancient Greece had a saying, 'all is number'. Held reveals the hidden numerical order of our world and our remarkable harmonic relationship with our surroundings.

Índice

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. The Number of the Whole
• 2. The Number Between Doubt and Suspense
• 3. The Queen of Numbers
• 4. The Number of the Earth
• 5. The Human Number
• 6. The Number of Perfection
• 7. The Number of Time
• 8. The New Number
• 9. The Almost Perfect Number
• 10. Grasping the World
• 11. Crisis and Bridge
• 12. The Number of the Whole World
• 13. The Step into the Unknown
• 14. The Bridge Between Heaven and Earth
• 15. The Underestimated Number
• 16. Ordering the World
• 17. The Loveliest Number
• 18. Life in its Fullness
• 19. The Number of New Birth
• 20. Space and the Human Being
• 21. The Number Between Eternity and Time
• 22. The Number of the Sun
• 23. The Ordering of Human Life
• 24. The All-Encompassing Number
• 25. In Oneself and Beyond
• 26. The Number of Script
• 27. The Number of Space
• 28. The Number of the Moon
• 29. The Bridge to Higher Life
• 30. The Great Circle
• 31. The Number of Mediation and Connection
• Bibliography
• Copyright