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July 19, 2013 12:31 AM Subscribe
Neil Degrasse Tyson waxes eloquent about Isaac Newton [chopped YouTube link, full length video 'SciCafe: Life the Universe and Everything' here]
Previously: NDT on the blue
...and if there's an Origins of Calculus battle, here's some fodder: in brief, in (a lot of) detail, and of course, in xkcd.
Previously: NDT on the blue
...and if there's an Origins of Calculus battle, here's some fodder: in brief, in (a lot of) detail, and of course, in xkcd.
I had a lawyer for a first semester calculus instructor, who spoke excitedly (and by that, I mean with interest) about the Newton and Leibnitz deal, and often took time out of lectures to quote the Calculus Wars book noted in the second to last link. Thoroughly enjoyed the instructor's class: I think as a lawyer he enjoyed the intricate mechanics that make calculus work (and showed that as he slowly and carefully laid out concepts), and the details of Newton's and Leibnitz's separate calculus proposals.
Great post!!!
posted by JoeXIII007 at 5:52 AM on July 19, 2013
Great post!!!
posted by JoeXIII007 at 5:52 AM on July 19, 2013
Calculus was invented in 1994...
Or maybe by Seki Kowa, a few years before Netwon and Leibnitz. Or maybe even before that, by other anonymous Japanese sangaku mathematicians.
posted by charlie don't surf at 3:49 PM on July 19, 2013
Or maybe by Seki Kowa, a few years before Netwon and Leibnitz. Or maybe even before that, by other anonymous Japanese sangaku mathematicians.
posted by charlie don't surf at 3:49 PM on July 19, 2013
I never considered that Newton chose the colors of the rainbow (ROY G BIV) so that they came out to a mystical number of 7 colors. Nah, it was probably just for pronounce-ability.
Thanks for the post, always fun to listen to NDgT.
posted by finnegans at 6:40 AM on July 20, 2013
Thanks for the post, always fun to listen to NDgT.
posted by finnegans at 6:40 AM on July 20, 2013
Speaking of NDgT, here's a 3 1/2 minute trailer for his upcoming 'remake' of "Cosmos".
posted by oneswellfoop at 11:57 PM on July 20, 2013
posted by oneswellfoop at 11:57 PM on July 20, 2013
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