Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World Graphic Novel Authors Hugh Amano and Sarah

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The Bone cousins are in the thick of it as the showdown between the Hooded One and the people of the Valley begins

illustrations by Jamilla Okubo

One hundred thousand years ago

ever-expanding web of dream and reality exquisitely translated by Brian Evenson

Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World Graphic Novel Authors Hugh Amano and Sarahby Amir Alexander 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 infinitely tiny parts. With the stroke of a pen the Jesuit fathers banned the doctrine of infinitesimals, announcing that it could never be taught or even mentioned. The concept was deemed dangerous and subversive, a threat to the belief that