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Amir Alexander
Books by Amir Alexander
Infinitesimal
How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World
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 f...