Amir Alexander, Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2015. Pp. 352. ISBN 978-0-374-53499-8. $16.00 [Book Review]

British Journal for the History of Science 49 (3):480-481 (2016)
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