← The Architecture of Number
The Language of Change · 5 volumes · ~190 min
How We Learned to Move
How motion and steam created calculus
Newton, Euler, Fourier, Gauss, Navier-Stokes — math for motion.
- Vol. IX The Fluxion, The Coin & The Monad How Cambridge plagues, clipped silver shillings, the Tyburn gallows, and flooded German mines forged the differential calculus and unchained the mathematical continuum (c. 1665 – 1716 CE).
- Vol. X The Basel Bridge & The Blind Craftsman How Swiss annuity audits, Prussian palace fountains, total blindness in a burning wooden house, and the laughter of thirteen children forged the golden product connecting prime atoms to the infinite continuum (c. 1720 – 1783 CE).
- Vol. XI The Steam Engine & The Saltpeter Furnace How flooded Cornish tin shafts, the Jacobin guillotine, Egyptian desert mirages, and bored Napoleonic bronze cannons forced mathematics to dismantle continuous reality into infinite waves of heat (c. 1760 – 1830 CE).
- Vol. XII The Boy of Brunswick & The Curved Earth How a bricklayer’s ledger, a child’s slate, a lost Sicilian asteroid, and the muddy triangulation hills of Hanover birthed modular arithmetic and curved differential geometry (c. 1790 – 1855 CE).
- Vol. XIII The River Wake & The Canal Drag How French canal locks, Napoleonic bridge collapses, oscillating pendulum friction, and Irish canal wakes forged the Navier-Stokes equations and the first Millennium Problem (c. 1820 – 1850 CE).