It’s real hard to explain so I leave it up to my fellow Freepers to fill in the blanks, so here goes.... How do you explain to somebody that at least 300 years ago somebody needed a way to state when a planetary body would cross the orbit of another planetary body, I’m just blown away that somebody (Sir Isaac) would just invent another form of mathematics (the Calculus) to explain all that. Feel Free to expound. B.S.
What are we supposed to expound on? Is it calculus that we’re supposed to expound on? Is it the prediction about the end of the world? I’m not sure I’m getting what you’re saying...
I’ll probably be corrected here but I don’t think Sir Isaac’s discovery of calculus had anything to do with his gravitational discoveries.
By the way, Sir Isaac had some competition in the invention of calculus. Leibnitz invented it at about the same time. Just a footnote!
Amazing, isn’t it that Newton was so far ahead 300 years ago. I once asked a mathematics professor what really was the point of studying things like functions of a complex variable and other courses I was taking. He told me it was so that we could describe the physics of 200 years form now. I also think it’s interesting that Newton made most of his discoveries as a young man, then spent the rest of his life studying things like the Bible.