Numerology had not found favor with the Christian authority of the day and was assigned to the field of unapproved beliefs along with astrology and other forms of divination and " magic ".

Numerology is given great credence by many of the characters, with the Law of Fives in particular being frequently mentioned.

* Numerology: by numbers.

Numerology is folkloric by nature and started when humans first learned to count.

Numerology is a popular plot device in fiction.

See Numerology and the Church Fathers for early Christian views.

For example, in his 1997 book Numerology: Or What Pythagoras Wrought, mathematician Underwood Dudley uses the term to discuss practitioners of the Elliott wave principle of stock market analysis.

Ruth A. Drayer's book, Numerology, The Power in Numbers ( Square One Publishers ) says that around the turn of the century ( from 1800 to 1900 A. D .) Mrs. L. Dow Balliett combined Pythagoras ' work with Biblical reference.

Then on Oct 23, 1972, Balliett's student, Dr. Juno Jordan, changed Numerology further and helped it to become the system known today under the title " Pythagorean ", although Pythagoras himself had nothing to do with the system.

Numerology: Or, What Pythagoras Wrought.

* Numerology, or What Pythagoras Wrought, Chapter 17, Underwood Dudley, Mathematical Association of America, ISBN 0-88385-524-0

More recently, the mathematician Underwood Dudley has written a series of books on mathematical cranks, including The Trisectors, Mathematical Cranks, and Numerology: Or, What Pythagoras Wrought.

* Underwood Dudley ( 1997 ), Numerology: Or, What Pythagoras Wrought, Mathematical Association of America.

* Numerology, a pseudoscience

Numerology is any study of the purported divine, mystical or other special relationship between a number and some coinciding observed ( or perceived ) events.

Numerology is prominent throughout Sir Thomas Browne's 1658 literary Discourse The Garden of Cyrus.

The Unveiled Numerology – vol.

* Drayer, R. A. ( 2002 ) Numerology, The Power in Numbers, A Right & Left Brain Approach.

* Kuei Ku-tzu, Inaugurator of Numerology and Geomancer.

Numerology, as it relates to luck, is closer to an art than to a science, yet numerologists, astrologists or psychics may disagree.

The expression " the map is not the territory " first appeared in print in a paper that Alfred Korzybski gave at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1931: In Science and Sanity, Korzybski acknowledges his debt to mathematician Eric Temple Bell, whose epigram " the map is not the thing mapped " was published in Numerology.

In modern numerological terminology, arithmancy ( a shortened form of Greek ἀριθμομαντεία divination by numbers ) is a simplified version of ancient Greek Isopsephy or Hebrew / Aramaic Gematria, as adapted to the Latin alphabet.

It is thought that other methods of divination supplanted pyromancy, such as numerological divination using milfoil ( yarrow ) in connection with the hexagrams of the I Ching, leading to the decline in inscribed oracle bones.

The importance of this 5 can largely be explained by the natural mathematical properties of the middle number and its special relationship to all the rest of the numbers -- quite apart from any numerological considerations, which is to say, any symbolic meaning arbitrarily assigned to it.

There is no evidence that any such " numerological strategy " yields a better outcome than pure chance, but the methods are sometimes encouraged, e. g. by casino owners.

Ptolemy was concerned to defend astrology by defining its limits, compiling astronomical data that he believed was reliable and dismissing practices ( such as considering the numerological significance of names ) that he believed to be without sound basis.

Eddington began by arguing, from aesthetic and numerological considerations, that α should be exactly 1 / 136.

Peter Bondanella, for example, argues that " any critic of La dolce vita not mesmerized by the magic number seven will find it almost impossible to organize the numerous sequences on a strictly numerological basis.

By about 1912 he became convinced that he had discovered what he called " the key to spiritual realization ", described by a later historian as " a set of numerological meditation exercises that bear little resemblance to either Sufism or Masonry " ( Sedgwick 2004: 66 ).

Danny Adams, in 2005, read the map as a coded message and claims the stones were made by Ted DeGrazia, a painter and art collector rumored to have burned ( or buried ) a collection of art worth $ 5 million rather than pay taxes over his property ; Adams claims one of the stones reads " Be ready boy, are on a map on Arizona county scale, scale map " and aided by numerological analysis locates the mine in Upper Labarge Canyon.

The idea of numerological correspondences goes back at least as far as Pythagoras and surely was instrumental in the interpretation by ancient astrologers of the angular relationships each house has with the others, and especially with the Ascendant.

who made numerous numerological calculations on the pyramid from 1864 and published them in a 664 page book Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid followed by Life, and Work in the Great Pyramid ( 1867 ).

According to Eric Von Daniken, the Great Pyramid has advanced numerological properties which could not have been known to the ancient Egyptians and so must have been passed down by extraterrestrials: "... the height of the pyramid of Cheops, multiplied by a thousand million — 98000000 miles — corresponds approximately to the distance between the Earth and the sun ".

In certain numerological systems based on the English alphabet, the number 77 is associated with Jesus Christ.

In certain numerological systems based on the English alphabet, the number 74 is associated with Jesus Christ.

Some players apply methods that are sometimes called numerological in games which involve numbers but no skill, such as bingo, roulette, keno, or lotteries.

The standard Quranic references to paradise were in the architecture, layout, and in the choice of plant life ; but more secular references, including numerological and zodiacal significances connected to family history or other cultural significance, were often juxtaposed.

By 1940, he had changed the spelling of his name from " Willis " to " Wyllis " ( to satisfy " his wife's numerological inclinations ") and lived mainly in the New York City area where he worked on a number of radio programs, the most important of which was probably Edward M. Kirby's popular and acclaimed government propaganda series, The Army Hour, which Cooper wrote, produced and directed for its first year.

Instead, he turned his attention to chronology and " harmony ," the numerological relationships among music, mathematics and the physical world, and their astrological consequences.

* A greeting among Thelemites, 93 is the numerological value of Thelema ( Will ) and Agape ( Love ) in Greek letters.

Keeping with the numerological theme of Zero Degree, the only numbers expressed in either words or symbols are numerologically equivalent to nine ( with the exception of two chapters ).

There are also other interpretations of assorted legends, scriptures, numerological constructions and prophecies encircling this date.