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... Newton . Newton's education at school and college . Discovery in 1665 of fluxions and the theory of gravitation . Investigations on expansion in series , algebra , and optics , 1668-70 . His optical discoveries and lectures , 1669-72 ...
... Newton . Newton's education at school and college . Discovery in 1665 of fluxions and the theory of gravitation . Investigations on expansion in series , algebra , and optics , 1668-70 . His optical discoveries and lectures , 1669-72 ...
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... Newton ) that much attention was paid to it at Cambridge . It must however be remembered that though under Eliza- bethan statutes mathematics was practically relegated to a secondary position in the university curriculum , yet it re ...
... Newton ) that much attention was paid to it at Cambridge . It must however be remembered that though under Eliza- bethan statutes mathematics was practically relegated to a secondary position in the university curriculum , yet it re ...
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... Newton , Whiston , Cotes , Smith , and others , learnt most of their algebra thereout . We may say roughly that henceforth elementary arithmetic , algebra , and trigonometry were treated in a manner which is not substantially different ...
... Newton , Whiston , Cotes , Smith , and others , learnt most of their algebra thereout . We may say roughly that henceforth elementary arithmetic , algebra , and trigonometry were treated in a manner which is not substantially different ...
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... Newton ; and lastly to Wallis and to Barrow , who were the first Englishmen to treat mathematics as a science rather than as an art , and who may be said to have introduced the methods of modern mathematics into Britain . It curiously ...
... Newton ; and lastly to Wallis and to Barrow , who were the first Englishmen to treat mathematics as a science rather than as an art , and who may be said to have introduced the methods of modern mathematics into Britain . It curiously ...
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... Newton was indebted for most of his instruc- tion in mathematics ; he certainly impressed his contemporaries as a man of great genius , and he came very near to the invention of the differential calculus . The infinitesimal calculus was ...
... Newton was indebted for most of his instruc- tion in mathematics ; he certainly impressed his contemporaries as a man of great genius , and he came very near to the invention of the differential calculus . The infinitesimal calculus was ...
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