[omnivore]

See _A History of Pi_ by Petr Beckmann, published in 1976. I read it years ago, it's a good history of math. I don't recall the exact method of death penalty used for heretic mathematicians who defied God by using the Satanic symbol of "0", whether it was burning at the stake, breaking on the wheel, tearing off the flesh with red hot pincers, or any of the other routine punishments handed out to heretics, who were the politically incorrect of their day. But they were indeed tortured to death.

What would be revisionism, would be to deny the historical record, that the Church used to torture people to death for various sorts of "heresies" that today are rightly laughed at.

[Antoninus]

I don't recall the exact method of death penalty used for heretic mathematicians who defied God by using the Satanic symbol of "0", whether it was burning at the stake, breaking on the wheel, tearing off the flesh with red hot pincers, or any of the other routine punishments handed out to heretics, who were the politically incorrect of their day. But they were indeed tortured to death. What would be revisionism, would be to deny the historical record, that the Church used to torture people to death for various sorts of "heresies" that today are rightly laughed at.

Again, prove it. You've cited one book, written in 1976 by an author unknown to me. With the vast resources of the internet at your disposal, you'd think that you could come up with a couple of primary sources (not anti-Papist polemical cr@p from Elizabethan or Cromwellian England) which demonstrated the Catholic Church torturing and killing people for mathematical or scientific ideas.

Just one primary source--that's all I'm asking.