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Infinitesimal
- How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World
- By: Amir Alexander
- Narrated by: Ira Rosenberg
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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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.
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An intriguing and underappreciated bit of history
- By Marino on 09-22-14
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Infinitesimal
- How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World
- Narrated by: Ira Rosenberg
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 09-02-14
- Language: English
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Proof!
- How the World Became Geometrical
- By: Amir Alexander
- Narrated by: Jonathan Ross
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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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?
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Proof!
- How the World Became Geometrical
- Narrated by: Jonathan Ross
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 09-10-19
- Language: English
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