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Infinitesimal: how a dangerous mathematical theory shaped the modern world
On August 10, 1632, five leading Jesuits convened in a sombre 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 forbidd...
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Oneworld
2014
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| Acceso en línea: | http://cds.cern.ch/record/1735464 |