Here's a stumper: How many parts can you divide a line into? It seems like a simple question. You can cut it in half. Then you can cut those lines in half, then cut those lines in half again. Just how ...

THE merits of Prof. Lamb's text-books are so well known and appreciated that it is unnecessary to analyse or commend the present oone, especially as it appears in its third edition. As the work of an ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Calculus is a branch of mathematics that explores variables and how they change by looking at ...

Adapted fromInfinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World, by Amir Alexander, by arrangement with Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and ...

The prolific Euler, pronounced ‘Oiler’, developed many of the notations mathematicians still use today, while also making discoveries in fields from infinitesimal calculus to graph theory. He is the ...

Time doesn’t exist, according to a letter from Bill Summers (22 October, p 34) because the present is infinitesimal. If that were so, then much of modern mathematics would have to go. Newton had to ...

THE author states that his aim in this book is to teach those portions of the Calculus which are most useful for a student of physics or engineering. We fear that many an engineering student would be ...