Title: Of historical interest only.
Product review: This book was obsolete before it was even published. It contains no material on nonstandard analysis, a subject which had been developed just a few years earlier, and nothing related to Smooth Infinitesimal Analysis, which was developed over the subsequent decade. The contributions give short shrift to the Arrow, the deepest of the paradoxes, and to the extent that the Arrow is discussed, the contributors miss the point entirely. (The point being that the derivative, which embodies instantaneous motion, depends classically for its definition on behavior at neighboring times.) Good information on the Arrow is still, to this day, hard to find. This book offers little or nothing to advance the topic. Cajori's history and modern research papers are much better sources.
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