Amir Alexander Infinitesimal (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: InfinitesimalCondition: NewEAN: 9781780746425ISBN: 9781780746425Publisher: Oneworld PublicationsFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/16/2015Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 26mmLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern WorldISBN-10: 1780746423Description: On August 10, 1632, five leading Jesuits convened in a sombre 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 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. 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBAuthor: Amir AlexanderGenre: Science Nature & MathRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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