Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World

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 infinite…

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