Description: 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.
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EAN: 9781780746425
UPC: 9781780746425
ISBN: 9781780746425
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Book Title: Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory
Item Length: 19.8 cm
Item Weight: 0.31 kg
Publisher: One World Publications
Publication Year: 2015
Subject: Science, Mathematics, History
Item Height: 198 mm
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World
Type: Textbook
Author: Assoc. Prof. Amir Alexander
Item Width: 129 mm
Format: Paperback
