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  • Alexander, Amir R., author.
     
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  • Calculus -- History.
     
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  • Geometry, Infinitesimal -- History.
     
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  • Mathematics -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
     
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  • Mathematics -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
     
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  • Science, Renaissance.
     
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    Infinitesimal : how a dangerous mathematical theory shaped the modern world / Amir Alexander.
    by Alexander, Amir R., author.
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    New York : Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
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  • Calculus -- History.
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  • Geometry, Infinitesimal -- History.
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  • Mathematics -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
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  • Mathematics -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
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  • Science, Renaissance.
  • ISBN: 
    9780374176815 (hardback)
    0374176817 (hardback)
    Description: 
    352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
    Edition: 
    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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