A review of "How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World"

The author has nothing nice to say about Levelers, Diggers, etc.... Its all violent anarchism and mobs. The English Revolution and Protestant reformation are just violent and dangerous interruptions of existing idyllic paradises. Neither the Catholic Church or the Anglican English King had any responsibility for the consequential revolutionary era, according to the Amir! Amir, which means King in Hebrew, pours almost half the book in the historical reconstruction of one of the most authoritarian criminal organizations in Human history the Jesuits. Not a word condemning their crimes both in the sciences and the masses they grievously injured. It is no coincidence that the Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels had been a student of the Jesuits, and Heinrich Himmler was impressed by the Order's organisational structure.[5] Hitler wrote favourably of their influence on architecture and on himself in Mein Kampf. Not that this flavor of authoritarianism was NOT the only peddled by Amir. He went into a nauseating detail into the diseased mind of Thomas Hobbes, a second rate philosopher and first order misanthrope. If Amir had spent the 80% book his wasted poliely describing the repression of Infinitesimal instead on a purely mathematical discourse he could have achieved his thesis of showing how the Infinitesimal impacted the modern World positively. He does so only at the end of his book. with some paltry references. I am grateful that he did spend a little time on Wallace, by far the only part of this book that is worth anything. However his mealy mouth objectivity regarding what are crimes in any historical context i.e. the repression of science and of free thinkers in all classes is unforgivable. Amir did not mention a word about the most virulent exposition of criminality by the Catholic Church in its systematic program in the repression of Human reasoning, i.e its burning alive of the great scientist Giordano Bruno. Amir Alexander or King Alexander his name's sake writes like Hobbes for the benefit of his powerful and rich benefactors. There is no more profitable business then the business of lickspittling!!