00:00 John McCarthy’s time in captivity. High anxiety when being moved, e.g. in a sack, between locations. Tried songs, remembering poetry. Doing maths. Somewhere safe “a little world that was mine”. Despite being self-confessed innumerate.
02:30 Thomas Stanley, C17 writer and historian reflecting back to Pythagoras.
05:30 Faith and number connected from inception of Hinduism. Numbers: A discovery and not an invention. Rig Vedas – understanding how something arrives from nothingness, from zero.