The Mathematical Career of the Monster of Malmesbury -- The Reform of Mathematics and of the Universities: Ideological Origins of the Dispute -- De Corpore and the Mathematics of Materialism -- Disputed Foundations: Hobbes vs. Wallis on the Philosophy of Mathematics -- The "Modern Analytics" and the Nature of Demonstration -- The Demise of Hobbesian Geometry -- The Religion, Rhetoric, and Politics of Mr. Hobbes and Dr. Wallis -- Persistence in Error: Why Was Hobbes So Resolutely Wrong? -- Selections from Hobbes's Mathematical Writings.
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