The fight over how to resolve it had a surprisingly large role in the wars and disputes that produced modern Europe, according to a new book called Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical ...

Historian Amir Alexander's "Infinitesimal" arrives with the tagline, "How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World." That a mathematical theory can be characterized as dangerous ...

Modern scientists have been able to study ever smaller particles of matter. Recently the pursuit of the infinitesimal reached a new vanishing point. An R.C.A. microphysicist developed an ...

He once described the painting’s edges as “the infinitesimal hinge between.” That’s what Marden’s work is.