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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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