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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.