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Ghosts of Departed Quantities: Calculus and its Limits

In 1734 Bishop Berkeley published a witty and effective attack...

For centuries massive intellectual effort has gone into methods of...

In his Principia Isaac Newton used his law of universal...

Alan Turing (1912-1954) and John von Neumann (1903-1957) had an...

Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) was one of the greatest mathematicians...

Joseph Fourier was interested in the mathematical study of the...

For 100 years up to the end of the 19th...

In 1905, his 'year of wonders', Einstein published four papers...

Although many people contributed to the study of infinity over...

Many robotic spacecraft have been sent to explore the cold...