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If a nonnegative quantity was so small that it is smaller than any given one, then it certainly could not be anything but zero. To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be. These supposed mysteries have rendered the calculus of the infinitely small quite suspect to many people. Those doubts that remain we shall thoroughly remove in the following pages, where we shall explain this calculus.

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Stella Dorothea Gibbons

Stella Dorothea Gibbons

Stella Dorothea Gibbons (5 January 1902—19 December 1989) was an English novelist, journalist, poet and short-story writer.

Her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm , won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for 1933. A satire and parody of the pessimistic ruralism of Thomas Hardy and his followers, the "loam and lovechild" genre, as some called it, Cold Comfort Farm introduces a self-confident young woman, quite self-consciously modern, pragmatic and optimistic, into the grim, fate-bound world those novelists tended to portray. Gibbons's own family was suburban and middle-class, but in some of its psychological dimensions is said to have been "not dissimilar to the Starkadders" described in that novel.[1]

Her other works include "Miss Linsey and Pa" (1936), "Nightingale Wood" (1938), "Westwood" (1946), and "Conference at Cold Comfort Farm" (1959). She also worked for ten years on various newspapers, including the Evening Standard.

In 1933 she married the actor and singer Allan Webb, who died in 1959. They had one daughter.

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