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008			130829s2014 nyua b 001 0 eng
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100	1		_aAlexander, Amir R., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aInfinitesimal : _bhow a dangerous mathematical theory shaped the modern world / _cAmir Alexander.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bScientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, _c2015.
300			_a352 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent _btxt
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia _bn
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier _bnc
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.
526			_a500-599 _b510
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.
856	4	2	_3Cover image _uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/815/9780374176815/image/lgcover.9780374176815.jpg
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