Bernhard Riemann - Creation scientist of the month

Creation Evolution Headlines ^ | May 2021 | David F. Coppedge

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Bernhard Riemann

1826 - 1866

by David F. Coppedge

Let’s turn now to another remarkable Christian mathematician who, like Blaise Pascal, changed the world but never reached his 40th birthday: Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (pronounced REE-mon).

Mathematics is the language of science and the two are almost useless without one another.

There are textbooks both in mathematical physics and physical mathematics. Sometimes the scientist presses the mathematician to produce better tools for computation, but sometimes the mathematician opens up new vistas for the scientist to explore. Riemann was such a man.

He liberated mathematics from the strictures of Euclidean geometry that for 2,000 years had seemed intuitively obvious and inviolable.

In so doing, he created a new space for Einstein to apply his mental powers. Howard Anton called Riemann’s work “brilliant and of fundamental importance,” and lamented that “his early death was a great loss to mathematics.”

Yet such achievement would have seemed unlikely for a boy who wanted to become a preacher...

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[Don@VB]

I remember studying Riemann Sums

[Dave Wright]

I’m not sure what the religious beliefs of a mathematician have to do with his accomplishments. There is no conflict between logic and religion. One is a system of self-constant axioms and relationships and the other is a system of metaphysical beliefs based on faith.

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... It matters because the libs will tell you that only an idiot would believe in God.

.... but the opposite is true.

[Notthereyet]

Wow.

During dinner I remarked to my beloved husband the belief I have that there are ideas that are gifts form the LORD.

Anything above 2+2=4 puts me at such a disadvantage it will cause me to experience panic attacks. Literally. I even tried a Math For Dummies course in college: My instructor swore he could tell when I hit a certain part in the course/testing because I would simply stop. Just STOP.

He kept telling me it was like reading a map. I once told him I couldn’t read a map and shortly thereafter I dropped the course. He understood it wasn’t him that was the issue. Mathematics was/is just beyond me.

I marvel at the genius of men/women of science. That it is often perverted is the consequence of humanity using science for perversion’s sake.

This was a wonderful article!!

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Interesting…

Your math difficulties haven’t prevented you from writing well, and in a literary, storyline manner, which is certainly a blessing on its own.

Thanks for your note!