Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Don" Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: The Einstein Effect Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2025 17:26:02 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 48 Message-ID: <20250109a@crcomp.net> References: <20250108b@crcomp.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2025 18:26:02 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="809b0b9d631677d07fcf20db9d4eafc6"; logging-data="3646683"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/lNFcp+6nrPUp+KaTL24Ed" Cancel-Lock: sha1:wOTvq8TvuyYKaBxf7Y+5ZlD9Y50= Bytes: 2625 Martin Brown wrote: > Don wrote: >> john larkin wrote: >>> >>> https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/einstein-and-adam-grant-agree-the-puzzle-principle-will-make-you-instantly-smarter/91102339 >>> >>> Cohen's book looks interesting, so I ordered it. >>> >>> I'm now reading Gleick's short biography of Isaac Newton, who was a >>> very weird guy. >> >> Einstein loved the sound of his own metaphysical bark and wasn't above >> fudging the score: >> >> >> >> Regardless, my followup isn't about this thread's titular Einstein. >> It's about Newton. >> >> "Did you know? It was AYABHATA & not Newton or (sic) Leibniz who >> first developed Calculus" >> >> > > I knew they had some interesting results but not that they had > discovered full blown calculus (at least in differential forms). > > The paper by the Manchester & Exeter team is online free access here: > > http://ckraju.net/Joseph/PA-3-Manchester-2007-paper.pdf > > Very interesting - thanks for pointing it out. And thank you for the link to the pertinent paper. Here's a paper about Archimedes' contribution to calculus: Although Achimedes apparently approaches integration from a geometric perspective, Newton's calculus uses Cartesian coordinates. Danke, -- Don, KB7RPU, https://www.qsl.net/kb7rpu There was a young lady named Bright Whose speed was far faster than light; She set out one day In a relative way And returned on the previous night.