Math for Mystics: From the Fibonacci sequence to Luna's Labyrinth to the Golden Section and Other Secrets of Sacred Geometry

I really appreciate how the author expresses her personal opinions and experiences with numbers throughout this book -not in long anecdotes -but in small ways that give a full grasp of the material. Also, this allows here to express her own theories of numbers, history, and religion in a way that I found refreshing -despite not always agreeing.

Bought this book out of curiosity, but it has done so much more for me than satisfy my curiosity. At school I was taught Maths and I was lousy at that, but that has been no handicap for reading this book. To me this book is all about concepts, lots and lots of them.

Much of math history comes to us from early astrologers who needed to be able to describe and record what they saw in the night sky. Whether you were the king's court astrologer or a farmer marking the best time for planting, timekeeping and numbers really mattered. Mistake a numerical pattern of petals and you could be poisoned. Lose the rhythm of a sacred dance or the meter of a ritually told story and the intricately woven threads that hold life together were spoiled. Ignore the celestial clock of equinoxes and solstices, and you'd risk being caught short of food for the winter.

pro: well written and clearly explained number patterns. good, but brief, historical backgrounds. con: definitely heavily weighted towards the view that fascinating number patterns are somehow intrinsically "magic" and very lacking in showing the real scientific magic of how theses patterns work in nature and in physics

Good reference/beginning to knowin about things I've heard about for years. Makes you want to know more,

This is a great and easy read! This should be used in most math classes!

A book of trivial information for the brain that needs to be filled with numbers, formulas, and the mysteries of the universe (as we know it). Wait... if we know it, it's no longer a mystery. Not a book I would necessarily want to read again.

Great primer! I really enjoyed the mix of math, history and mysticism and how it combines all three in a practical guide for mindfulness when approaching this subject. The chapter on the Knights Templar was particularly good