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Science 19 February 1999:
Vol. 283. no. 5405, p. 1122
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5405.1122
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MATHEMATICS:
Infinitesimal Steps
A review by Joseph W. Dauben
Reasoning with the Infinite From the Closed World to the Mathematical Universe
Michel Blay
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1998. 226 pp. $30, £25.95. ISBN 0-226-05834-4.
The French historian Blay's examination of the emergence of a mathematical physics (the analysis of nature in terms of quantitative laws that allow predictions based on mathematical reason) focuses on lesser known figures (Fontenelle, Wronski) rather than on the more successful efforts of more influential practitioners (Euler, Lagrange, Laplace, Cauchy).
The author is in the Department of History, Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York and in the faculty of the Ph.D. Program in History, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 33 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036, USA. E-mail: jdauben{at}email.gc.cuny.edu
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