In mathematics, a Mersenne prime is a prime number that is one less than a power of two. That is, it is a prime number of the form Mn = 2n − 1 for some integer n. They are named after Marin Mersenne, a French Minim friar, who studied them in the early 17th century.
Marin Mersenne, Marin Mersennus or le Père Mersenne was a French polymath, whose works touched a wide variety of fields. He is perhaps best known today among mathematicians for Mersenne prime numbers. Wonder if he was inspired by the book of numbers from the Bible.
There has been a movie of mathematician from India whom utilized religious devotion and practice to realize mathematical discoveries:
The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0787524/
Religions of the East and of the West both have mathematicians whom practiced spiritual devotion religiously to realize equations and formulas from an exponential higher power.
Sri Yantra and it's applications in mathematics is a curious scholastic pursuit:
http://alumni.cse.ucsc.edu/~mikel/sriyantra/joseph.html
What fascinated me about this book by James McCanney, is he suggests not a computer program but a creative innovation as if low technology in number theory would realize number recognition of primes.
I recommend this book
http://www.jmccanneyscience.com/calculateprimes.HTM
In the book "The Innovators" by Walter Isaacson, he describes computer programmers a priestly class of mathematicians. These are both great books. Most recently, a church deacon made a discovery:
How a Church Deacon Found the Biggest Prime Number Yet (It Wasn’t as Hard as You Think)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/science/prime-number-mersenne-church.html
Some other considerations of being inspired by religion to solve difficult problems, the Russian Jewish engineer Jakow Trachtenberg, in order to keep his mind occupied while being held in a concentration camp, developed a system of rapid mental calculation:
The Trachtenberg system is a system of rapid mental calculation.
http://www.speed-math.com/
This is fascinating that Jakow Trachtenberg would utilize a system of mental calculation as a means to keep sane in an insane environment as a concentration camp. Perhaps in ghettos or racists communities, some people may find solace in prayer and math as some sort of psychological defense.
Other consideration include:
New Clues To Why Some Autistic Kids Are So Good At Math
https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-08/unique-brain-organization-enhances-autistic-kids-math-prowess
Explorers, when they discovered the Mayan temples, behaved in a similar manner as other explorers, acting out of xenophobia, destroyed many artifacts of the Mayan temple. This happened with the Spaniards in Mexico as well the British in India and must be some sort of human condition of xenophobia.
Mayan civilization and mathematics appear to have a religious class association to some degree:
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/Mayan_mathematics.html
Sometimes low tech and raw creativity solve the problems better than garbage in, garbage out of the super computer. The spirit of the mathematician may have a Hausdorff dimension towards transcendental numbers equating cardinal numbers of religious influence!
In mathematics, a transcendental number is a real or complex number that is not algebraic—that is, it is not a root of a nonzero polynomial equation with integer (or, equivalently, rational) coefficients.
It is fascinating comparing mathematicians whom also are religious, from multiple religions, whom make discoveries from their faith. Comparing this to atheists scientists as well considering ethics of non consent upon test subjects is significant. The Nazi as well as others have committed horrible unethical acts in part from their research.
For example: https://www.nuclearsavage.com/
Hard science and soft science are colloquial terms used to compare scientific fields on the basis of perceived methodological rigor, exactitude, and objectivity. Roughly speaking, the natural sciences are considered "hard", whereas the social sciences are usually described as "soft". Ethical oversight and sunset accounting of coercive practices violating autonomy in scientific endeavors is worth GIGO considerations, garbage in, garbage out of the AI supercomputer or operator error as a standard standard error, particularly in soft sciences like political science and psychology.
Different types of conditions with autism or savants have influence as well
There are also cases of traumatic injuries turning people into mathematical geniuses:
https://www.livescience.com/45349-brain-injury-turns-man-into-math-genius.html
A neologism is a relatively recent or isolated term, word, or phrase that may be in the process of entering common use, but that has not yet been fully accepted into mainstream language. Repetitive use of language or idiosyncratic language use in autism and ADD has been considered in research studies.
The transcendence of π allowed the proof of the impossibility of several ancient geometric constructions involving compass and straightedge, including the most famous one, squaring the circle.
In 1900, David Hilbert posed an influential question about transcendental numbers, Hilbert's seventh problem
http://euclid.colorado.edu/~tubbs/courses/courses.html
What's so special about transcendental numbers?
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/1510/whats-so-special-about-transcendental-numbers
Transcendental numbers involving primes?
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/622704/transcendental-numbers-involving-primes
Transcendental number theory is a branch of number theory that investigates transcendental numbers in both qualitative and quantitative ways.
What is it that Leibniz calls a “Monad”?
https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/1801/what-is-it-that-leibniz-calls-a-monad
In the Summer of 1974 The Journal of San Diego History published an interview to Theosophist Iverson L. Harris, where he stated that A. Einstein had a copy of Madame Blavatsky's book The Secret Doctrine on his table all the time.
https://blavatskytheosophy.com/what-exactly-is-the-monad/
Gottfried Leibniz: Metaphysics
http://www.iep.utm.edu/leib-met/
President Roosevelt commissioned sculptor Walter A. Russell to create the Four Freedoms Monument to be dedicated to the first hero of World War II.
What are the four freedoms of FDR?
The speech delivered by President Roosevelt incorporated the following text, known as the "Four Freedoms": In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world.
I recommend reading: In the wave lies the secret of creation by Walter Russell:
The Hindi word Kirpala from Sanskrit Kripala means "kind" Kripa (कृपा) is the concept of divine grace in Hinduism which finds its origins in the Vedas; though variously it can mean "grace", "mercy", or "blessing", depending upon the context.
https://www.thoughtco.com/meditate-to-develop-the-witness-consciousness-3182956
Samkhya or Sankhya (Sanskrit: सांख्य, IAST: sāṃkhya) is one of the six āstika schools of Hindu philosophy.
What are the six schools of Hindu philosophy?
Samkhya:
1. Samkhya: Samkhya is the oldest of the orthodox philosophical systems, and it postulates that everything in reality stems from purusha (self or soul or mind) and prakriti (matter, creative agency, energy). ...
2.Yoga: ...
3.Nyaya: ...
4.Vaisheshika: ...
5.Purva Mimamsa: ...
6. Vedanta:
https://yogainternational.com/article/view/become-your-own-inner-witness
There are yoga and meditation exercises for cultivating witness consciousness. I have been reading 'Practical Sufism' and in chapter 3 it discusses an exercise called Shahid: The Witness. Tuning in to witness consciousness or our Oversoul (As Emerson emotes) has Buddhist, Hindi, Taoist, as well Sufism variations that are all of similar principal and are expressed by physiologists in some function as a network of mirror neurons.
https://www.ramdass.org/cultivating-witness/
There are practical applications with exercising Shahid:
The Karpman Drama Triangle
http://coachingsupervisionacademy.com/the-karpman-drama-triangle/
A mirror neuron is a neuron that fires both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another. Thus, the neuron "mirrors" the behavior of the other, as though the observer were itself acting. Such neurons have been directly observed in primate species.
Monkey see, monkey do? See no evil, hear no evil speak no evil.