Here's a stumper: How many parts can you divide a line into? It seems like a simple question. You can cut it in half. Then you can cut those lines in half, then cut those lines in half again. Just how ...
Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World, by Amir Alexander Robyn Arianrhod on a compelling tale of Jesuits, geometry and heresy in the turbulent 17th century ...
THIS volume is the first of two which will make a complete work under the title “Anwendung der Differential- und Integral-Rechnung auf Geometrie.” The subject-matter of the two volumes may be said to ...