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 ...

An example of these farsighted efforts, perhaps the best example in America, is the General Electric Company’s researches into the infinitesimal and indivisible. Here is a corporation that on ...

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