David Berlinski Quote

The origin is a mathematical point, something that has sucked from the concept of a place its essential property, that of being here rather than there, the infinitely extended line itself balanced perfectly on that slim, solitary, and singular spike.


A Tour of the Calculus, Chapter 3 (p. 17), Pantheon Books. 1995


The origin is a mathematical point, something that has sucked from the concept of a place its essential property, that of being here rather than...

The origin is a mathematical point, something that has sucked from the concept of a place its essential property, that of being here rather than...

The origin is a mathematical point, something that has sucked from the concept of a place its essential property, that of being here rather than...

The origin is a mathematical point, something that has sucked from the concept of a place its essential property, that of being here rather than...