Studying the aspects that gave origin to the well known Differential and Integral Calculus right now.
The Royal Society Committee , which analyzed Leibniz plagiarism charges, and the two bands that emerged from it, are really a sign that the human race doesn't change too much through the centuries, and it takes a bit the mystic halo science has, showing that science is also a man business, specially observing Newton's actions, of almost supra human image in the eyes of some, and not really brilliant in the mentioned case.
It also comes as a conclusion that giving the unique authorship of Calculus to one unique person is at least very unfair, seeing the clear traces of preliminary works coming from the Greeks, and there is a list of really big names with fundamental works as Fermat, Descartes, Hooke, etc.
No comments:
Post a Comment