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100 1 $aAlexander, Amir R.,$eauthor.
245 10 $aInfinitesimal :$bhow a dangerous mathematical theory shaped the modern world /$cAmir Alexander.
246 30 $aHow a dangerous mathematical theory shaped the modern world
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bScientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2014.
300 $a352 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"The epic battle over a mathematical concept that shook the old order and shaped the world as we know it. On August 10, 1632, five leaders of the Society of Jesus convened in a somber Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a simple idea: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and limitlessly tiny parts. The doctrine would become the foundation of calculus, but on that fateful day the judges ruled that it was forbidden. With the stroke of a pen they set off a war for the soul of the modern world. Amir Alexander's Infinitesimal is the story of the struggle that pitted Europe's entrenched powers against voices for tolerance and change. It takes us from the bloody religious strife of the sixteenth century to the battlefields of the English civil war and the fierce confrontations between leading thinkers like Galileo and Hobbes. We see how a small mathematical disagreement became a contest over the nature of the heavens and the earth: Was the world entirely known and ruled by a divinely sanctioned rationality and hierarchy? Or was it a vast and mysterious place, ripe for exploration? The legitimacy of popes and kings, as well as our modern beliefs in human liberty and progressive science, hung in the balance; the answer hinged on the infinitesimal. Pulsing with drama and excitement, Infinitesimal will forever change the way you look at a simple line--and celebrates the spirit of discovery, innovation, and intellectual achievement"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"The epic battle over a mathematical concept that shook the old order and shaped the world as we know it"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 0 $aThe 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.
650 0 $aCalculus$xHistory.
650 0 $aGeometry, Infinitesimal$xHistory.
650 0 $aMathematics$zEurope$xHistory$y16th century.
650 0 $aMathematics$zEurope$xHistory$y17th century.
650 0 $aScience, Renaissance.
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650 7 $aHISTORY / Europe / Western.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aCalculus.$2fast
650 7 $aGeometry, Infinitesimal.$2fast
650 7 $aMathematics.$2fast
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