It is an honor to write to someone so knowledgable in the intersection of mathematics and religion.

I am a practicing Muslim and I wanted to share a fascinating set of mathematical miracles in the Qur’an.

The math miracles are underneath the scientific miracles.

Please see http://www.quranmiracles.com

I would greatly appreciate if you can share with me what you think of the mathematical miracles in lexical concordance section and the mathematics and 19 section.

Peace,

Omer Abid, MD, MPH

A copy of Infinity and the Mind sits on my library shelf. Well, actually I just pulled it off the shelf to take another look at it — I remember how much Rucker’s work influenced my early thought process, so it will be fun to re-examine it at this later stage of my own work. In particular I want to review what he wrote about the One and the Many (Chapter 5) and Cantor and Gödel (Excursions I and II) since I wrote about these topics in What Number Is God? and, later, in “Matheology and Cantorian Religion” (Religious Humanism 37:1, Winter/Spring 2004, 15-26). These subjects will come up again if the proposal I’ve been invited to submit gets funded and I get to offer my series of three “moral math” workshops (see the blurb about “Moral Math Training Sessions” on my Moral Math page). I invite you to watch for more information about these workshops on this website. Tentative plans include offering them in Omaha in July, 2011; in Arlington, Texas in late October or early November, 2012; and in Seattle in March, 2012. Note the emphasis on “tentative” — gotta get the funding first!

Can you point the way to anything online about Topological Theology?

I was so happy to see your new website I wrote a Ph.D dissertation at Northwestern
a while back called “Topological Theology” in which I discussed math and specifically topological metaphors for theology. I love your Cantorian metaphors, they bear more discussion and expansion, have you written
more about them somewhere?

I was a part time math instructor for years at places like San Jose State CA but my Ph.D in theology didn’t get
me very far. Do you know the work “Infinity and the Mind” by Rudy Rucker? Rudy’s a friend of mine out here in California, and a wonderfuly creative writer. He writes a lot of science fiction now.

I met Rudy ( we both taught at San Jose State but didn’t really know each other there, oddly enough) at my
local church in Los Gatos CA, St. Luke’s Episcopal after not seeing him for decades, it must have been divine intervention, honestly.

So, just wanted to say hi, I’m looking forward to reading more of your work. I’m just now finally getting around to re-writing and renewing my dissertation….hopefully I’ll have a website as nice as yours someday soon.

Cheers,

Barry Wright