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Category:
Philosophy
Publisher: New Park Publications
ISBN-10: 0861510003
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 248
Copyright: 1983
ISBN-13: 9780861510009
In the last two years of his life Karl Marx wrote a history of differential calculus. This work, praised by Engels at Marx's gravesite, was first published in a Soviet edition, with original German and Russian translation on facing pages, in Moscow in 1968. This translation, published in London in 1983, is its first English version.
English, German, Russian (translation)
Excerpt
"Therefore mathematicians really believed in the mysterious character of the newly-discovered means of calculuation which led to the correct (and, particularly in the geometric application, surprising) result by means of a positively flase mathematical procedure. In this manner they became themselves mystified, rated the new discovery all the more highly, enraged all the more greatly the crowd of old orthodox mathematicians, and elicited the shrieks of hostility which echoed even in the world of non-specialists and which were necessary for the blazing of this new path." p. 94
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