which affects Europe from Machiavelli till the present.

The Machiavellian mind and the merchant mind are at one in 
their simple faith in the power of segmental division to 
rule all—in the dichotomy of power and morals and of 
money and morals.

Dantzig explains why the language of number had to be 
increased to meet the needs created by the new 
technology of letters.

How the Greeks encountered the confusion of tongues when 
numbers invaded Euclidean space.

The great sixteenth century divorce between art and science 
came with accelerated calculators.