Newton and stuff

 

So to begin with we have fig newtons, and just plane newtons, and then of course we have Newtons Method:


https://web.ma.utexas.edu/users/m408n/CurrentWeb/LM4-8-2.php#:~:text=Newton's%20method%20is%20a%20technique,guess%20x1.


Pretty good to have a method.  Anyway, Isaac Newton was of course an historic figure, and a very curious historic figure at that, and I am constantly bedazzled by his insights about celestial motion and connecting that  back to things that are observable on earth.  But you also have to admit that it's a little hard to picture Lagrange or Laplace or Leibnitz or several other prominent historical science and math type guys without that influence, maybe including Gauss, and Reimann.  


From an article about Oasis, Standing on the Shoulder of Giants:


:Its appearance on the £2 coin is down to the fact that the great scientist Sir Isaac Newton used the phrase in a letter to his friend and colleague Robert Hooke, back in February 1676: "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

Newton, who famously developed world-changing theories of physics by coming up with laws of motion and gravity, was commenting that his achievements would not have been possible without the work of those who had come before him. The phrase actually dates back as far as the 12th Century, but Newton's is the most famous quote.


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