Alexander Filonenko, "The Mathematical Formula of Tenderness," Online Course "The Sentimental His...
Alexander Filonenko's full online course, "The Sentimental History of Science," is available on the Otium.Academy website: https://otium.academy/courses/filonen...
The second lecture of the course, "Mathematics and Tenderness," is one of the most impressive. We especially recommend it to those who, back in school, considered themselves "lyrical" humanities students and concluded that tangents, cotangents, functions, and integrals fail to evoke the slightest response in their souls.
Today, we are publishing the final part of this lecture, in which you will learn what radically changed in the world when the Arabs brought zero to Europe; how Leibniz's discovery of Chinese hexagrams led to the digital civilization of our time; how Euler's number brought bankers and Gaudi's architecture together; And finally, how such diverse mathematical worlds—ancient, Indian, Arabic, Chinese, and so on—were brought together by one of history's greatest mathematicians, Leonhard Euler, when he derived the formula for tenderness.
"The key that connects universes is what we always discard... Mathematics is not just about beauty, but also about tenderness, about what people always leave behind, not realizing that this is precisely what makes their lives delicious."
Lecturer: Alexander Filonenko – theologian, Doctor of Philosophy, lecturer in the Philosophy Department of the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, and academician of the Ambrosian Academy (Milan). Recipient of the Templeton Foundation Prize for the Science and Theology Course Program of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS, USA). Author of the books: "Life for Me is Christ: Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh" (2015), "Ocean of Mystery" (2019).
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