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[ 洋図書 ] Infinitesimal : how a dangerous mathematical theory shaped the modern world /

Amir Alexander. -- Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, -- 2014. -- 1st ed.

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ISBN 0374176817
ISBN13桁 9780374176815
テキストの言語 英語                  
分類：NDC10版 410.2
個人著者標目 Alexander, Amir R.
本タイトル Infinitesimal :
タイトル関連情報 how a dangerous mathematical theory shaped the modern world /
著者名 Amir Alexander.
その他のタイトル How a dangerous mathematical theory shaped the modern world
版表示 1st ed.
出版地・頒布地 New York :
出版者・頒布者名 Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
出版年・頒布年 2014.
数量 352 p. :
他の形態的事項 ill. ;
大きさ 24 cm.
書誌注記 Includes bibliographical references and index.
内容注記 Part I: 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 -- Part II: Leviathan and the infinitesimal. The coming of Leviathan ; Thomas Hobbes, geometer ; Who was John Wallis? ; Mathematics for a new world -- Epilogue: Two modernities -- Dramatis personae -- Time line.
要約、抄録、注釈等 "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"--,"The epic battle over a mathematical concept that shook the old order and shaped the world as we know it"--
団体件名 Jesuiten.
一般件名 Calculus -- History.
Geometry, Infinitesimal -- History.
地名件名 Europe.
資料情報1 『Infinitesimal : how a dangerous mathematical theory shaped the modern world /』1st ed.　Amir Alexander.　Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux,　2014. （所蔵館：中央　 請求記号：F/410.2/A37/I　 資料コード：7105679638）
URL https://catalog.library.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/winj/opac/switch-detail.do?lang=ja&bibid=1352014892

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