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Ms. Wertheim: Well, my first book, which is called Pythagoras’ Trousers, is basically a cultural history of physics that focuses on the historical relationship between physics and religion. Physicists have been engaged with the God question deeply from its origins basically in Pythagoreanism two-and-a-half thousand years ago. So Pythagoras believed that the numbers were literally gods and that — when we found mathematical relationships inherent in the world around us — that what we were discovering was, as it were, the true reality behind the material phenomena. And it’s the vision that really gave birth to modern physics, which efflorescens into being as we all know in the 17th century. - onbeing.org