The Great Rift

Literacy, Numeracy, and the Religion-Science Divide

“Hobart offers a new twist on a huge old metanarrative: the death of God. Something or other happened in Renaissance Europe, the story goes, and it eventually distanced scientists from religion. Hobart locates this great shift in the field of mathematics...Contains a huge wealth of historical anecdote, and Hobart marshals it confidently.” —Josephine Livingstone, New Republic $39.95