JDNickelMath's profile picture. James Nickel, BA (Math), BTh, BMiss, MA (Education), Senior Fellow at The Center for Cultural Leadership. Author of "The Dance of Number" math curriculum.

James Duane Nickel

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James Nickel, BA (Math), BTh, BMiss, MA (Education), Senior Fellow at The Center for Cultural Leadership. Author of "The Dance of Number" math curriculum.

The very fact that the totality of our sense experiences is such that by means of thinking* it can be put in order, this fact is one which leaves us in awe, but which we shall never understand. One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. *operations…


Check out this video! ceraweek.com/en?videoId=636… Energy Secretary Wright telling it like it is.


Grace means that God gives himself to us as God, freely and unconditionally, to be worshiped and adored. But grace also means that God comes to us in Jesus Christ as man, to do for us and in us what we cannot do. James B. Torrance, Worship, Community & the Triune God of Grace…


Here lies the mystery, the wonder, the glory of the Gospel, that He who is God, the Creator of all things, and worthy of the worship and praises of all creation, should become man and as a man worship God, and as a man lead us in our worship of God, that we might become the sons…


The ground of the rationality of the beautifully dynamic order of the universe is its Creator. This ground is transcendent. It finds its source and justification in the rationality and the dynamic beauty known from eternity in the fellowship within the Trinity, Father, Son, and…


The form, the beauty, the relationship, the radiance, the purpose of creation is the Christ who is cosmic in His reach. Therefore, we will never see creation rightly unless we listen to the Word of the Father. -- James D Nickel, Mathematics: Exploring Beauty (2024), p. 54.…


Now available for purchase! When you pick up this book, you will first feel its weight. Its weight carries the glory of its beauty, the physical beauty of its cover, and its interior design. Beauty also governs the prose - its theological and mathematical exposition - and the…


The description of the physical phenomena of seeing a rainbow in the sky strains the capacity of ordinary language, and some of the most powerful tools of mathematical physics have been devised for explaining how the rainbow works. The rainbow is truly one of the more…


Prepublication copy arrived today.

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Book cover mock up ... Getting very, very close to publication release!

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The physical world overwhelms us with its splendor, beauty, immensities, fragilities, incalculable and multifaceted diversity, endless combinations, minute intricacies, and immeasurable grandeurs. It is through mathematics that we explore some of the beauty of this wonder, wonder…


Mathematics and beauty: An oxymoronic idea or deep relationship? John Polkinghorne: … there is the fact of the profound intelligibility of the universe that has made its laws actually accessible to us, so that whether it is quantum theory’s account of the subatomic world, or the…


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