Faith in Numbers (8 September 2013)
[rtoc] 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 …