Henri Poincare, a famous French mathematician
of late 19th century, once said “If God speaks to man, He undoubtedly
uses the language of mathematics.”
The Quran is intended to be an eternal miracle. A highly sophisticated
mathematical system based on prime number 19 was embedded into the
fabric of the Quran (decoded between 1969-1974 and onwards with the aid
of computers). This system provided verifiable PHYSICAL evidence that
“The Book is,
without a doubt, a revelation from the Lord of the universe”
(32:2), and incontrovertibly ruled out the possibility that it could be
the product of a man living in the ignorant Arabian society of the 7th
century. It also proved that no falsehood could enter into the Quran,
as promised by God.
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To ascertain that they fully delivered their
Lord's messages, He protectively enveloped what He entrusted them with
and He counted the numbers of all things. 72:28 (7+2+2+8=19)
Furthermore the mathematical miracle of the Quran shed new light on
the exceptional style and structure of the book. Here, we will look into
one of these aspects through Digital Analysis based on a modern mathematical
theorem known as Benford’s Law which has proved strikingly effective
in detecting frauds.
Benford’s Law
According to Benford’s discovery, if you count any collection
of objects – whether it be pebbles on the beach, the number of words
in a magazine article or dollars in
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your bank account – then the number
you end up with is more likely to start with a “1” than any
other digit. Somehow, nature has a soft spot for digit “one.”
Frank Benford, a physicist with the General Electric Company, was not
the first who made this astonishing observation. 19 years before the end
of 19th century, the American astronomer and mathematician Simon Newcomb
noticed that the pages of heavily used books of logarithms were much more
worn and smudged at the beginning than at the end, suggesting that for
some reason, people did more calculations involving numbers starting with
1 than 8 and 9. (Newcomb, S. "Note on the Frequency of the Use of
Digits in Natural Numbers." Amer. J. Math 4, 39-40, 1881)
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