4 How Imaginaries Became Real

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Stranger Relations 1
5. 1 Plato’s Mythos of Mathematics 11
6. 2 Imbrications: Mathematics as a Translative Rhetorical Force 36
7. 3 Transgressing the Limit: Invention, the Calculus, and the Rhetorical Force of the Infinitesimal 60
8. 4 How Imaginaries Became Real 85
9. 5 Algorithmic Culture and Economies of Translation 103
10. 6 Implications: Translative Rhetoric Revisited 130
11. Notes 151
12. Bibliography 173
13. Index 185