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Infinitesimal
How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World
E-bok, 2014
106 kr
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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 …
Infinitesimal
How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World
Häftad, 2015
275 kr
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Duel at Dawn
Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics
Häftad, 2011
281 kr
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In the fog of a Paris dawn in 1832, Évariste Galois, the 20-year-old founder of modern algebra, was shot and killed in a duel. That gunshot, suggests Amir Alexander, marked the end of one era in mathematics and the beginning of another.Arguing that not even the purest mathematics can be separated …
Infinitesimal
How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World
Häftad, 2015
144 kr
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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 …
Liberty's Grid
A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America
Inbunden, 2024
264 kr
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The surprising history behind a ubiquitous facet of the United States: the gridded landscape. Seen from an airplane, much of the United States appears to be a gridded land of startling uniformity. Perpendicular streets and rectangular fields, all precisely measured and perfectly aligned, turn both …
