Albert Eagle was an English mathematician and philosopher who wrote several books (some of them privately published) giving his forcefully expressed and somewhat eccentric views on science and mathematics.
His best-known book is on elliptic functions,[1] where he uses his idiosyncratic mathematical notation, such as τ instead of π/2,[2] and !n for n factorial.
In his other writings he dismissed special relativity, quantum mechanics and natural selection as absurdities.
[3] Eagle has been described as a pantheist as he held the view that God is the ultimate substance and the world is but a pattern on his surface.
[5] Eagle believed that the inner-ego, mind and non-physical body survive death into another world.