Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Ball , Walter William Rouse (1960-06-01), A short account of the history of mathematics, Dover Pubns, Retrieved on 2011-12-15Source Material [books.google.com]
Folksonomies: mathematics Memes
15 DEC 2011
Newton Was At The Right Time to Discover Calculus
Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler, Cavalieri, Pascal, Fermat, Wallis, and Barrow. It was Newton's good luck to come at a time when everything was ripe for the discovery, and his ability enabled him to construct almost at once a complete calculus.Folksonomies: discovery
Folksonomies: discovery
Just as Darwin came at the right time to discover Evolution through Natural Selection.
15 DEC 2011
Demoivre's Death
The manner of Demoivre's death has a certain interest for psychologists. Shortly before it, he declared that it was necessary for him to sleep some ten minutes or a quarter of an hour longer each day than the preceding one: the day after he had thus reached a total of something over twenty-three hours he slept up to the limit of twenty-four hours, and then died in his sleep.Folksonomies: synchronicity
Folksonomies: synchronicity
He slept a little longer each night until he slept for 24 hours, then died.