Calculus is a branch of mathematics that explores ... To understand what is meant by infinitesimal, consider the formula for the area of a circle: A=πr². The following demonstration is adapted ...

That's the paradox lurking behind calculus. 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 ...

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 ...

The Discovery of Infinitesimal Calculus. H. W. Turnbull in Nature, Vol. 167, pages 1048–1050; June 30, 1951. Exploration Mathematics: The Rhetoric of Discovery and the Rise of Infinitesimal Methods.

Calculus is about the infinite and the infinitesimal, and how they come together in mind-boggling ways. The beauty of these ideas is brilliantly explained in a recent book by the mathematician ...

A World Without Calculus: Would It Add Up? What might have happened if the Jesuits and Hobbes had won out? What if the infinitesimal had been successfully stamped out everywhere? "I think things ...

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 ...