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To: LibWhacker

Utterly fascinating. I learned about something I knew nothing about. That he may have created a new form of mathematics is...wow.


34 posted on 10/12/2015 4:58:43 PM PDT by abigkahuna (Here now and whatever....)
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To: abigkahuna
That he may have created a new form of mathematics is...wow.

Yep, we might be talking about Isaac Newton level genius here. Newton was working on planetary orbits, I think, when he recognized that the math he knew was insufficient. So he invented calculus.

38 posted on 10/12/2015 5:13:13 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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