Friday, February 20, 2009

Excerpt

... known that it is no coincidence that the sign for integration ∫ matches the contour of the Taijitu's interior, nor that the limits of integration were placed at the seeds of the other, the dual centers toward which both yin and yang are inextricably drawn. Leibniz, ever the sinophile, knew that motion and stasis were linked through the slope of time, that change could be captured in a single stroke...

Unfortunately, Leibniz ignored the most crucial point, that the whole is often far more than the limit of sums, and often far less...