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Alexander, Amir R., author.
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Calculus -- History.
Geometry, Infinitesimal -- History.
Mathematics -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
Mathematics -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
Science, Renaissance.
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Infinitesimal : how a dangerous mathematical theory shaped the modern world / Amir Alexander.
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Alexander, Amir R., author.
New York : Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
Subjects
Calculus -- History.
Geometry, Infinitesimal -- History.
Mathematics -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
Mathematics -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
Science, Renaissance.
ISBN:
9780374176815 (hardback)
0374176817 (hardback)
Description:
352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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First edition.
Contents:
The war against disorder : the Jesuits against the infinitely small. The children of Ignatius -- Mathematical order -- Mathematical disorder -- "Destroy or be destroyed" : the war on the infinitely small -- The battle of the mathematicians -- Leviathan and the infinitesimal. The coming of Leviathan -- Thomas Hobbes, geometer -- Who was John Wallis? -- Mathematics for a new world -- Two modernities.
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"The epic battle over a mathematical concept that shook the old order and shaped the world as we know it."--From the publisher.
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