“Infinitesimal,” meaning extremely small, explores the passage between life and death. Specifically, it takes moments from ...

Here's a stumper: How many parts can you divide a line into? It seems like a simple question. You can cut it in half. Then you can cut those lines in half, then cut those lines in half again. Just how ...

FARADAY, describing his experiment which established a fundamental law of electrical science, — the induction of electric currents, — was asked, ‘What use is it?’ To which he gave the classic ...

Modern scientists have been able to study ever smaller particles of matter. Recently the pursuit of the infinitesimal reached a new vanishing point. An R.C.A. microphysicist developed an instrument ...

To the prospective reader, a subtitle is to a book what a carnival barker is to a midway: the step-right-up pitchman who peddles a mixture of awe, enlightenment and—no less important—bang for the buck ...

Time doesn’t exist, according to a letter from Bill Summers (22 October, p 34) because the present is infinitesimal. If that were so, then much of modern mathematics would have to go. Newton had to ...