The Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be.


Ch. 5: Mathematics and the Metaphysicians - Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays (1918)

Bertrand Russell Quotes

The Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little...

The Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little...

The Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little...

The Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little...