Mathematics And God

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Professor wins prize for maths link to God

A Polish priest and mathematician who was a friend of the late Pope John Paul II has won the world's richest academic prize for work that shows how maths can offer circumstantial evidence of God's existence.

Professor Michael Heller, 72, a pioneering cosmologist and philosopher specialising in mathematics and metaphysics, received the £820,000 prize yesterday in New York.

His theories do not so much offer proof of the existence of God as introduce doubt about the material existence of the world around us. He specialises in complex formulae that make it possible to explain everything, even chance, through mathematical calculation.

"He has introduced a significant notion of theology of science. He has succeeded in showing that religion isolating itself from scientific insights is lame, and science failing to acknowledge other ways of understanding is blind."


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