3000 Years of Analysis: Mathematics in History and Culture (Hardcover, 2021)

Prologue: 3000 Years of Analysis.- The Continuum in Greek-Hellenistic Antiquity.- How Knowledge Migrates ? From Orientto Occident.- Continuum and Atomismin Scholasticism.- Indivisibles and Infinitesimals in the Renaissance.- At the Turn from the 16th to the 17thCentury.- Newton and Leibniz-Giants and Opponents.- Absolutism ,Enlightenment, Departure to New Shores.- On the Way to Conceptual Rigourin the 19th Century.- At theTurn to the 20th Century: Set Theory and the Search for the True Continuum.- Coming to full circle: Infinitesimals in Nonstandard Analysis.