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Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World
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Artikel-Nr:
9780374176815
Veröffentl:
2014
Seiten:
368
Autor:
Amir Alexander
Gewicht:
579 g
Format:
238x159x38 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Amir Alexander teaches history at UCLA. He is the author of "Geometrical Landscapes "and "Duel at Dawn." His work has been featured in "Nature," "The Guardian," and other publications. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
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. This book shows how a small mathematical disagreement became a contest over the nature of the heavens and the earth.
"The epic battle over a mathematical concept that shook the old order and shaped the world as we know it"