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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Alexander, Amir R., author.     Subjects     Calculus -- History.     Geometry, Infinitesimal -- History.     Mathematics -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.     Mathematics -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.     Science, Renaissance.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Alexander, Amir R., author.       by title:      Infinitesimal [elect...         MARC Display

Infinitesimal [electronic resource] : how a dangerous mathematical theory shaped the modern world / Amir Alexander. by Alexander, Amir R., author. New York : Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. Subjects Calculus -- History.   Geometry, Infinitesimal -- History.   Mathematics -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.   Mathematics -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.   Science, Renaissance. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=3A396B11-C6CC-43F1-9030-D9BD8C0656F3 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/2390-1/{3A396B11-C6CC-43F1-9030-D9BD8C0656F3}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9781429953924 (electronic bk.) 1429953926 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations. Edition:  First edition. Contents:  The 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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"--   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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