Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World by Amir Alexander

Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World

Amir Alexander

352 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics science challenging informative slow-paced
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On August 10, 1632, five men in flowing black robes convened in a somber Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a deceptively simple proposition: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and infinitely tiny parts. With the stroke of a pen the Jes...

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