Hello World!  Or at least hello to that part of the world with an interest in things mathematical, religious, or (even better) both.

I’m Sarah Voss, and here is the debut of the newly-upgraded pi.zine! – a website dedicated (well, mostly dedicated) to the relationship between math and religion.  Please browse.  If you want to add a comment, feel free to use the reply box below or, better yet, check out the Circle Friends page.

In Plato’s “Myth of Er” the souls, having left their dead bodies behind on earth, line up to choose their new lives according to lot. Those who draw the first numbers receive first choice from the immense pool of possible lives. The departed souls, in other words, rely upon a random process of ordering, i.e., on mathematics, to help determine the nature of their immortality. But mathematics is more than a practical aid to the soul. To Plato and the ancient Greeks, indeed, to a surprising number of individuals throughout history, mathematics has been a way of defining and understanding the soul….  To read this full entry, go to Sarah’s Notebook.