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Pulsing with drama and excitement, Infinitesimal celebrates the spirit of discovery, innovation, and intellectual achievement - and it will forever change the way you look at a simple line.
On August 10, 1632, five men in flowing black robes convened in a somber Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a deceptively simple proposition: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and infinitely tiny parts. With the stroke of a pen the Jesuit fathers banned the doctrine of infinitesimals, announcing that it could never be taught or even mentioned. The concept was deemed dangerous and subversive, a threat to the belief that the world was an orderly place, governed by a strict and unchanging set of rules. If infinitesimals were ever accepted, the Jesuits feared, the entire world would be plunged into chaos.
In Infinitesimal, the award-winning historian Amir Alexander exposes the deep-seated reasons behind the rulings of the Jesuits and shows how the doctrine persisted, becoming the foundation of calculus and much of modern mathematics and technology. Indeed, not everyone agreed with the Jesuits. Philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians across Europe embraced infinitesimals as the key to scientific progress, freedom of thought, and a more tolerant society. As Alexander reveals, it wasn’t long before the two camps set off on a war that pitted Europe’s forces of hierarchy and order against those of pluralism and change.
The story takes us from the bloody battlefields of Europe’s religious wars and the English Civil War and into the lives of the greatest mathematicians and philosophers of the day, including Galileo and Isaac Newton, Cardinal Bellarmine and Thomas Hobbes, and Christopher Clavius and John Wallis. In Italy, the defeat of the infinitely small signaled an end to that land’s reign as the cultural heart of Europe, and in England, the triumph of infinitesimals helped launch the island nation on a course that would make it the world’s first modern state.
From the imperial cities of Germany to the green hills of Surrey, from the papal palace in Rome to the halls of the Royal Society of London, Alexander demonstrates how a disagreement over a mathematical concept became a contest over the heavens and the Earth. The legitimacy of popes and kings, as well as our beliefs in human liberty and progressive science, were at stake - the soul of the modern world hinged on the infinitesimal.
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The Arabic legacy of science and philosophy has long been hidden from the West. British-Iraqi physicist Jim Al-Khalili unveils that legacy to fascinating effect by returning to its roots in the hubs of Arab innovation that would advance science and jump-start the European Renaissance.
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Very interesting book, well-narrated for sure
- De Roderic Rinehart en 11-07-20
De: Jim Al-Khalili
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The Dream of Enlightenment
- The Rise of Modern Philosophy
- De: Anthony Gottlieb
- Narrado por: Anthony Gottlieb
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In The Dream of Enlightenment, Anthony Gottlieb expertly navigates a second great explosion of thought, taking us to northern Europe in the wake of its wars of religion and the rise of Galilean science. In a relatively short period - from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution - Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark. The Dream of Enlightenment tells their story and that of the birth of modern philosophy.
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Enlightenment meets Neuroscience
- De Rodger en 12-05-19
De: Anthony Gottlieb
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A History of Christianity
- De: Paul Johnson
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 28 h y 30 m
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First published in 1976, Paul Johnson's exceptional study of Christianity has been loved and widely hailed for its intensive research, writing, and magnitude. Weaving a great range of material, the scholar and author Johnson creates an ambitious panoramic overview of the evolution of the Western world since the founding of a little-known "Jesus sect".
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Read Brant Pitre's the case for Jesus instead.
- De Catherine BFT en 05-08-17
De: Paul Johnson
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Hitler's Religion
- The Twisted Beliefs That Drove the Third Reich
- De: Richard Weikart
- Narrado por: Ian Fisher
- Duración: 10 h y 37 m
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Weikart reveals the startling and fascinating truth about the most hated man of the 20th century: Adolf Hitler was a pantheist who believed nature was God. In Hitler's Religion, Weikart explains how the laws of nature became Hitler's only moral guide - how he became convinced he would serve God by annihilating supposedly "inferior" human beings and promoting the welfare and reproduction of the allegedly superior Aryansin accordance with racist forms of Darwinism prevalent at the time.
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Hitler's Religion - (Subtile is ridiculous)
- De M. Johnson en 07-16-18
De: Richard Weikart
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Ibn Khaldun
- An Intellectual Biography
- De: Robert Irwin
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world - a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds. Yet the author of the Muqaddima, the most important study of history ever produced in the Islamic world, is not as well known as he should be, and his ideas are widely misunderstood. In this groundbreaking intellectual biography, Robert Irwin provides an engaging and authoritative account of Ibn Khaldun's extraordinary life, times, writings, and ideas.
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Issues with accuracy, pronounciation
- De Moh 3aly en 01-02-19
De: Robert Irwin
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The Civilization of the Middle Ages
- De: Norman F. Cantor
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 28 h y 42 m
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The Civilization of the Middle Ages incorporates current research, recent trends in interpretation, and novel perspectives, especially on the foundations of the Middle Ages and the Later Middle Ages of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. A sharper focus on social history, Jewish history, women’s roles in society, and popular religion and heresy distinguish the book.
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Recommended for students
- De Delano en 12-18-11
De: Norman F. Cantor
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The Metaphysical Club
- De: Louis Menand
- Narrado por: Henry Leyva
- Duración: 6 h y 53 m
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Hardly a club in the conventional sense, the organization referred to in the title of this superb literary hybrid (part history, part biography, part philosophy) consisted of four members and probably existed for less than nine months.
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The Great American Experiment
- De Victoria en 12-08-03
De: Louis Menand
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The Year of Our Lord 1943
- Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
- De: Alan Jacobs
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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By early 1943, it had become increasingly clear the Allies would win the Second World War. Christian intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic thought the soon-to-be-victorious nations were not culturally or morally prepared for their success. These Christian intellectuals - Jacques Maritain, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, W. H. Auden, and Simone Weil, among others - sought both to articulate a sober and reflective critique of their own culture and to outline a plan for the moral and spiritual regeneration of their countries in the post-war world.
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The Audible is a Train Wreck
- De John en 09-04-18
De: Alan Jacobs
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Galileo
- And the Science Deniers
- De: Mario Livio
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
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Astrophysicist and best-selling author Mario Livio draws on his own scientific expertise to provide captivating insights into how Galileo reached his bold new conclusions about the cosmos and the laws of nature. A freethinker who followed the evidence wherever it led him, Galileo was one of the most significant figures behind the scientific revolution. He believed that every educated person should know science as well as literature, and insisted on reaching the widest audience possible, publishing his books in Italian rather than Latin.
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Galileo through the mind of Mario Livio
- De Rick B en 06-09-20
De: Mario Livio
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Soul Machine
- The Invention of the Modern Mind
- De: George Makari
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
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Soul Machine takes us back to the origins of modernity, a time when a crisis in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to searching questions about the nature of human inner life. This is the story of how a new concept - the mind - emerged as a potential solution, one that was part soul and part machine but fully neither.
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High yield
- De Mark Twain en 01-21-16
De: George Makari
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Proof!
- How the World Became Geometrical
- De: Amir Alexander
- Narrado por: Jonathan Ross
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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One night in 1661, Nicholas Fouquet, a superintendent under Louis XIV, was arrested. His crime was peculiar: He had dared to construct a grand geometrical garden. In doing so, he violated an irrefutable hierarchy: that geometry, in its perfection, was a testament to divine right. The elegant, symmetrical designs were more than just ornament; they were proofs of incontestable certainty, and thus the authority to rule. But how did the French royalty fall in love with this peculiar landscape design? Wherefore Versailles?
De: Amir Alexander
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Euclid's Window
- The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace
- De: Leonard Mlodinow
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
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Through Euclid's Window Leonard Mlodinow brilliantly and delightfully leads us on a journey through five revolutions in geometry, from the Greek concept of parallel lines to the latest notions of hyperspace. Here is an altogether new, refreshing, alternative history of math revealing how simple questions anyone might ask about space -- in the living room or in some other galaxy -- have been the hidden engine of the highest achievements in science and technology.
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Wow!
- De Eric en 08-13-10
De: Leonard Mlodinow
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Lost in Math
- How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
- De: Sabine Hossenfelder
- Narrado por: Laura Jennings
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Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories from disposable ones. This is why, Sabine Hossenfelder argues, we have not seen a major breakthrough in the foundations of physics for more than four decades. The belief in beauty has become so dogmatic that it now conflicts with scientific objectivity: Observation has been unable to confirm mindboggling theories, like supersymmetry or grand unification, invented by physicists based on aesthetic criteria.
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A rare glimpse into the inner world of physics
- De Joe en 12-08-18
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Relativity
- The Special and the General Theory
- De: Albert Einstein
- Narrado por: Julian Lopez-Morillas
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Albert Einstein described Relativity as a "popular explosion" of his famous theory. Written in 1916, it introduced the lay audience to the remarkable perspective which had overturned theoretical physics. Einstein's genius was to express this perspective in understandable terms.
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Can't stand listening to the reader.
- De Xcoder en 04-20-11
De: Albert Einstein
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The Joy of x
- A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
- De: Steven Strogatz
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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Many people take math in high school and promptly forget much of it. But math plays a part in all of our lives all of the time, whether we know it or not. In The Joy of x, Steven Strogatz expands on his hit New York Times series to explain the big ideas of math gently and clearly, with wit, and insight.
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Great listen
- De cameron en 08-16-19
De: Steven Strogatz
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Humble Pi
- When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World
- De: Matt Parker
- Narrado por: Matt Parker
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near misses, and mathematical mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotteries, the Roman Empire, and an Olympic team, Matt Parker uncovers the bizarre ways math trips us up, and what this reveals about its essential place in our world. Getting it wrong has never been more fun.
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Fascinating & enlightening even for da mathphobic✏️
- De C. White en 01-23-20
De: Matt Parker
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Proof!
- How the World Became Geometrical
- De: Amir Alexander
- Narrado por: Jonathan Ross
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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One night in 1661, Nicholas Fouquet, a superintendent under Louis XIV, was arrested. His crime was peculiar: He had dared to construct a grand geometrical garden. In doing so, he violated an irrefutable hierarchy: that geometry, in its perfection, was a testament to divine right. The elegant, symmetrical designs were more than just ornament; they were proofs of incontestable certainty, and thus the authority to rule. But how did the French royalty fall in love with this peculiar landscape design? Wherefore Versailles?
De: Amir Alexander
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Euclid's Window
- The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace
- De: Leonard Mlodinow
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
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Through Euclid's Window Leonard Mlodinow brilliantly and delightfully leads us on a journey through five revolutions in geometry, from the Greek concept of parallel lines to the latest notions of hyperspace. Here is an altogether new, refreshing, alternative history of math revealing how simple questions anyone might ask about space -- in the living room or in some other galaxy -- have been the hidden engine of the highest achievements in science and technology.
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Wow!
- De Eric en 08-13-10
De: Leonard Mlodinow
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Lost in Math
- How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
- De: Sabine Hossenfelder
- Narrado por: Laura Jennings
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
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Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories from disposable ones. This is why, Sabine Hossenfelder argues, we have not seen a major breakthrough in the foundations of physics for more than four decades. The belief in beauty has become so dogmatic that it now conflicts with scientific objectivity: Observation has been unable to confirm mindboggling theories, like supersymmetry or grand unification, invented by physicists based on aesthetic criteria.
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A rare glimpse into the inner world of physics
- De Joe en 12-08-18
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Relativity
- The Special and the General Theory
- De: Albert Einstein
- Narrado por: Julian Lopez-Morillas
- Duración: 2 h y 14 m
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Albert Einstein described Relativity as a "popular explosion" of his famous theory. Written in 1916, it introduced the lay audience to the remarkable perspective which had overturned theoretical physics. Einstein's genius was to express this perspective in understandable terms.
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Can't stand listening to the reader.
- De Xcoder en 04-20-11
De: Albert Einstein
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The Joy of x
- A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
- De: Steven Strogatz
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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Historia
Many people take math in high school and promptly forget much of it. But math plays a part in all of our lives all of the time, whether we know it or not. In The Joy of x, Steven Strogatz expands on his hit New York Times series to explain the big ideas of math gently and clearly, with wit, and insight.
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Great listen
- De cameron en 08-16-19
De: Steven Strogatz
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Humble Pi
- When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World
- De: Matt Parker
- Narrado por: Matt Parker
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near misses, and mathematical mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotteries, the Roman Empire, and an Olympic team, Matt Parker uncovers the bizarre ways math trips us up, and what this reveals about its essential place in our world. Getting it wrong has never been more fun.
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Fascinating & enlightening even for da mathphobic✏️
- De C. White en 01-23-20
De: Matt Parker
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Infinitesimal
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- Roberto Calderon
- 08-18-23
Great book on how infinitesimal struggled to exist.
Overall the audio was good. Infinitesimal is a great story that mixes math with history and informative in the great players of mathematics.
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- 11-08-17
needs pictures
needs pictures to understand the diagrams that the author uses to describe the concepts. the second half is easier to understand.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-09-18
much more than mere math history
I wanted to learn about math history, but this was much more. it gave very good background for understanding that everything is entangeled relugion history politics power games and shamefully petty men.
worth listening even if you are not mathematically inclined. A must for math teachers.
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- Henry
- 09-02-16
An Amazing Listen to intrigue and history. Highly recommended.
A fantastic review of political - mathematical - religious history. Presented so the layperson can understand and follow. The two concepts need to be clearly outlined or perhaps I need to review the text again.
Definitely worth listening to. The book brings sense to some of histories extreme views. It also provides understanding for the great advances in the scientific, political and religious areas.
Highly recommended.
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- Vince T
- 01-10-23
Great History of Importance of Pluralism Seen Though Math
Great history of Europe during the seventeen century within the framework of the introduction of the infinitesimal e.g. the tool of calculus. The role mathematics played in the struggle between religions was fascinating.
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- Fred
- 04-17-23
Outstanding!
Beautifully written. Intellectual history, political theory, religious history, philosophy of science and mathematics in transition from ancient to modern. Quite a story with great import to today’s world that didn’t have to turn out as it did. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Fortunately my Jesuit education came 300+ years later. Strangely they taught me calculus!
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- Jim Fuqua
- 01-18-19
Good Math History
Infinitesimal may tell you more than you want to know. I suspect that the reviews give the book less than a 5.0 rating is that the book gives the Jesuits a very hard time for holding back math in Italy for at least 100 years by burning one person at the stake and confining Galileo to house arrest for the end of the life for believing that math could progress by considering small units of measurement that had no width. They intimidated many other mathematicians to silence less they suffer the same fate.
Had they stuck to religious matters, calculus may have been discovered a century earlier and in Italy.
The book is filled with an immense amount of detail. It tells of the problems of using geometric solutions as analogous to political solutions to political problems.
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- Oliver
- 12-10-18
A sprawling historic account of...
A sprawling historic account of an inflection point in the history of science and mathematics.
Amir Alexander tells the story of how the concept of the infinitesimal became a flash point for opposing personalities in the Catholic Church, then the English parliament. He does so in great detail, sometimes going on circumlocutious tangents to set the scene. The book is more for historians than for philosophers of science and mathematics. Still, if you have the patience, the stories he tells will leave you with a very different perspective on how powerful and contentious mathematical debates can be.
He contends that this conflict over infinitesimals helped to determine the cultural and technological fates of England and Italy. I am unsure about this hard to verify assertion. Still, there is no doubt for me that analysis is a deeply philosophical and not just logicomathematical concept.
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- Marino
- 09-22-14
An intriguing and underappreciated bit of history
What made the experience of listening to Infinitesimal the most enjoyable?
The best part of any historical work is learning about the parts of history which are normally occluded by time.
What did you like best about this story?
The most fascinating part of the story was certainly its focus on lesser known, yet significant, people of history.
What three words best describe Ira Rosenberg’s voice?
Clear and well-enunciated
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Sometimes the very small can have a very big effect.
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- John
- 03-27-19
Great Story
We always hear that Newton and Leibnitz invented calculus and that's a big over-simplification, although they deserve a lot of credit. This book tells the a big part of the story behind why it's not that simple in an entertaining way.
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