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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.

It's not my problem if you're not into going to libraries to do your own research. I've given you my source. If _you_ have a problem with it, then I guess _you_ have a problem. So sorry. I'll take Petr Beckmann's word, having read his book and finding it believable, over the word of random people I see posting on the Internet. Contrary to what you may have heard, "primary sources" are generally physical archives, not random drivel on the Internet. I can see this is leading to a Galileo-type situation, where his opponents refused to look through his telescope. In this case, I gave you the reference I got the information from. If you refuse to make any effort to look into it, that is hardly my fault. I'm not the one with a problem, so I don't have the burden of solving or "proving" anything. I've given you what I know. If you don't believe it, that's cool. I don't mind what you believe or don't believe. I'm not trying to cause a beef. I just mentioned something I read in a book, and I still believe. Peace be with you.