David Peat

Index 227Major, John, 164Marlow, Christopher, 91Mathematics, 28abstract axiomatic systems, 37algorithms, 43–45artificial intelligence, 45–47certainty within, 27, 28, 29–30cognitive strategies, 45counting, 31–32Gödel’s theorem, 40–42Hilbert’s program, 38–39intuitionism, 39logic, 36–38, 47–51numbers, 32–33, 41, 116, 120proofs, 35–37, 43Pythagorean theorem, 36symbols, 38–39, 41, 43truths, 42–43, 78, 81Matter, 11, 53, 54, 56Maxwell, James Clerk, 6Mayer, Lothar, 182McNeil, J. R., 175Meal at Emmaus, The (Caravaggio), 96Measurement, 12–14, 16, 21Mercury’s orbit, 201Meson, 57Midgley, Thomas, 173, 175Mill, John Stuart, 189Miller, Jonathan, 87Mind, seeing with the, 95–96Minkowski, Herman, 4Models, 22–23Molecules, 57Monet, Claude, 107–108Moore, G. E., 77Moser, J., 122–124Motion, Newton’s theory of, 1, 11, 117–119, 121, 129, 200, 201Mysticism, 78NNambu, Yoichiro, 58, 60Nehru, Pandit Motilal, 161Newton, Sir Isaac, 3, 10, 24 n.7, 56, 61,62Principles of Natural Philosophy, 36study of light, 110theory of motion, 1, 11, 117–119,121, 129, 200, 201Newtonian clockwork, 117–119, 121,126Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 155Night Watch (Rembrandt), 102Nucleus, 57Numbers, 32–33, 41, 116, 120OOath of the Horatii, The (David), 104Object, 64Objective level, 11Objective reality, 18, 22Objectivity, 4–5, 14, 17Observation, 5, 13, 17, 20–21Observer, 13laws independent of, 5Occam’s razor, 133, 133 n.5“On Formally UndecidablePropositions of PrincipiaMathematica and RelatedSystems” (Gödel), 40Open systems, 137Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 168, 190Order, 124Organizations, 143–149Orwell, George, 29, 99Ozone layer, 174PPainting, 98–105illusionistic, 103, 106Impressionism, 107–111landscape, 103naturalistic, 106storytelling, 103Pais, Abraham, 18