Reasoning with the Infinite: From the Closed World to the Mathematical Universe
Author:   Michel Blay ,  M. B. DeBevoise
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
Edition:   New edition
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9780226058351


Pages:   226
Publication Date:   10 November 1999
Format:   Paperback
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Until the Scientific Revolution, the nature and motions of heavenly objects were mysterious and unpredictable. The Scientific Revolution was revolutionary in part because it saw the advent of many mathematical tools—chief among them the calculus—that natural philosophers could use to explain and predict these cosmic motions. Michel Blay traces the origins of this mathematization of the world, from Galileo to Newton and Laplace, and considers the profound philosophical consequences of submitting the infinite to rational analysis. ""One of Michael Blay's many fine achievements in Reasoning with the Infinite is to make us realize how velocity, and later instantaneous velocity, came to play a vital part in the development of a rigorous mathematical science of motion.""—Margaret Wertheim, New Scientist

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Author:   Michel Blay ,  M. B. DeBevoise
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 1.60cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 2.30cm
Weight:   0.397kg
ISBN:  

9780226058351


ISBN 10:   0226058352
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   10 November 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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