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| Lagrangian |
Cambridge University Library holds the largest and most important collection of the scientific works of Isaac Newton (1642-1727). Newton was closely associated with Cambridge. He came to the University as a student in 1661, graduating in 1665, and from 1669 to 1701 he held the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics. Under the regulations for this Chair, Newton was required to deposit copies of his lectures in the University Library. These, and some correspondence relating to the University, were assigned the classmarks Dd.4.18, Dd.9.46, Dd.9.67, Dd.9.68, and Mm.6.50.
In 1699 Newton was appointed Master of the Mint, and in 1703 he was elected President of the Royal Society, a post he occupied until his death.
After his death, the manuscripts in Newton's possession passed to his niece Catherine and her husband John Conduitt. In 1740 the Conduitts' daughter, also Catherine, married John Wallop, who became Viscount Lymington when his father was created first Earl of Portsmouth. Their son became the second earl and the manuscripts were passed down succeeding generations of the family.
In 1872 the fifth earl passed all the Newton manuscripts he had to the University of Cambridge, where they were assessed and a detailed catalogue made. Based on this catalogue, the earl generously presented all the mathematical and scientific manuscripts to the University, and it is these that form the Library's 'Portsmouth collection' (MSS Add. 3958-Add. 4007).
The remainder of the Newton papers, many concerned with alchemy, theology and chronology, were returned to Lord Portsmouth. They were sold at auction at Sotheby's in London in 1936 and purchased by other libraries and individuals.
In 2000 Cambridge University Library acquired a very important collection of scientific manuscripts from the Earl of Macclesfield, which included a significant number of Isaac Newton's letters and other papers.
A number of videos explaining aspects of Newton's work and manuscripts are available from the Newton Project's YouTube site, a selection of which are presented alongside our manuscripts.
http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton |
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| Lira |
| Newton's belief that he lived in the end of times is the proof even geniuses can be idiots :p |
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| Lagrangian |
| the idiot is clearly John Maynard Keynes |
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| Lagrangian |
this is the beauty of mathematics, it's a world of it's own, detached from all the noise outside: politics, fashion, social movements, religion. But it's deeply embedded in nature and all around us. It's a silent companion that one can awaken by meditation and rigorous observation; mathematicians are empiricists.
What is truly beautiful about mathematics, is that it does not discriminate against anyone, math doesn't care if you're nobility, peon, mongrel, gypsy, anarchist, scholar, etc. It cares for truth, and truth is never pleasant under the eyes of most, because it is hard to look beyond our own prejudice. And because most of us have our very own concepts of 'truth'.
Mathematics, Is the purest form of truth.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/g...7#ixzz1w3LI5N1w
A GERMAN 16-year-old has become the first person to solve a mathematical problem posed by Sir Isaac Newton more than 300 years ago.
Shouryya Ray worked out how to calculate exactly the path of a projectile under gravity and subject to air resistance, The (London) Sunday Times reported.
The Indian-born teen said he solved the problem that had stumped mathematicians for centuries while working on a school project.
Mr Ray won a research award for his efforts and has been labeled a genius by the German media, but he put it down to "curiosity and schoolboy naivety".
"When it was explained to us that the problems had no solutions, I thought to myself, 'well, there's no harm in trying,'" he said.
Mr Ray's family moved to Germany when he was 12 after his engineer father got a job at a technical college. He said his father instilled in him a "hunger for mathematics" and taught him calculus at the age of six.
Mr Ray's father, Subhashis, said his son's mathematical prowess quickly outstripped his own considerable knowledge.
"He never discussed his project with me before it was finished and the mathematics he used are far beyond my reach," he said. |
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| Moongoose |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Newton's belief that he lived in the end of times is the proof even geniuses can be idiots :p |
Find me a generation of believers (of almost any faith) that dont think that they are living in the end times :) And Newton was a massive faithhead, as evidented by hos other work that they dont tell you about in school out of fear that one would start thinking of him as a massive idiot instead of one of the great men of science :p |
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| Looney4Clooney |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Newton's belief that he lived in the end of times is the proof even geniuses can be idiots :p |
um his work on alchemy really made your jab unnecessary. |
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| Looney4Clooney |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lagrangian
this is the beauty of mathematics, it's a world of it's own, detached from all the noise outside: politics, fashion, social movements, religion. But it's deeply embedded in nature and all around us. It's a silent companion that one can awaken by meditation and rigorous observation; mathematicians are empiricists.
What is truly beautiful about mathematics, is that it does not discriminate against anyone, math doesn't care if you're nobility, peon, mongrel, gypsy, anarchist, scholar, etc. It cares for truth, and truth is never pleasant under the eyes of most, because it is hard to look beyond our own prejudice. And because most of us have our very own concepts of 'truth'.
Mathematics, Is the purest form of truth.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/g...7#ixzz1w3LI5N1w
A GERMAN 16-year-old has become the first person to solve a mathematical problem posed by Sir Isaac Newton more than 300 years ago.
Shouryya Ray worked out how to calculate exactly the path of a projectile under gravity and subject to air resistance, The (London) Sunday Times reported.
The Indian-born teen said he solved the problem that had stumped mathematicians for centuries while working on a school project.
Mr Ray won a research award for his efforts and has been labeled a genius by the German media, but he put it down to "curiosity and schoolboy naivety".
"When it was explained to us that the problems had no solutions, I thought to myself, 'well, there's no harm in trying,'" he said.
Mr Ray's family moved to Germany when he was 12 after his engineer father got a job at a technical college. He said his father instilled in him a "hunger for mathematics" and taught him calculus at the age of six.
Mr Ray's father, Subhashis, said his son's mathematical prowess quickly outstripped his own considerable knowledge.
"He never discussed his project with me before it was finished and the mathematics he used are far beyond my reach," he said. |
i'm sure he is really really smart, but considering we can send to space, and have ironed out the engineering of flying pretty well, i don't really buy the fact that we can't anticipate trajectories given gravity and wind. I mean we have autopilot that can land a plane. This kinda screams of bad journalism. |
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| Blake |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Newton's belief that he lived in the end of times is the proof even geniuses can be idiots :p |
I disagree. In fact, it's entirely possible that we live at the end of times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Da...the_End_of_Time
The notion makes for a good read anyway :p
Thanks for sharing, Lagrangian. Wish I could see some of Newton's writings having to do with alchemy & theology, myself. The above notion really isn't that difficult to imagine when you consider things from a standpoint in which only n-dimensional space exists, and not time. :) |
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| TheTrinity |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lagrangian
this is the beauty of mathematics, it's a world of it's own, detached from all the noise outside: politics, fashion, social movements, religion. But it's deeply embedded in nature and all around us. It's a silent companion that one can awaken by meditation and rigorous observation; mathematicians are empiricists.
What is truly beautiful about mathematics, is that it does not discriminate against anyone, math doesn't care if you're nobility, peon, mongrel, gypsy, anarchist, scholar, etc. It cares for truth, and truth is never pleasant under the eyes of most, because it is hard to look beyond our own prejudice. And because most of us have our very own concepts of 'truth'.
Mathematics, Is the purest form of truth.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/g...7#ixzz1w3LI5N1w
A GERMAN 16-year-old has become the first person to solve a mathematical problem posed by Sir Isaac Newton more than 300 years ago.
Shouryya Ray worked out how to calculate exactly the path of a projectile under gravity and subject to air resistance, The (London) Sunday Times reported.
The Indian-born teen said he solved the problem that had stumped mathematicians for centuries while working on a school project.
Mr Ray won a research award for his efforts and has been labeled a genius by the German media, but he put it down to "curiosity and schoolboy naivety".
"When it was explained to us that the problems had no solutions, I thought to myself, 'well, there's no harm in trying,'" he said.
Mr Ray's family moved to Germany when he was 12 after his engineer father got a job at a technical college. He said his father instilled in him a "hunger for mathematics" and taught him calculus at the age of six.
Mr Ray's father, Subhashis, said his son's mathematical prowess quickly outstripped his own considerable knowledge.
"He never discussed his project with me before it was finished and the mathematics he used are far beyond my reach," he said. |
mathematics is a fantasy land where 1 = 1.
find me an example in the real world where 1 = 1. |
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| srussell0018 |
| Are you stupid? |
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| Meat187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by TheTrinity
mathematics is a fantasy land where 1 = 1.
find me an example in the real world where 1 = 1. |
:stongue:
This guy is awesome. I hope that fag Sushipunk doesn't ban him. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Moongoose
Find me a generation of believers (of almost any faith) that dont think that they are living in the end times :) And Newton was a massive faithhead, as evidented by hos other work that they dont tell you about in school out of fear that one would start thinking of him as a massive idiot instead of one of the great men of science :p |
Indeed :p
| quote: | Originally posted by Looney4Clooney
um his work on alchemy really made your jab unnecessary. |
Well, at least alchemy in its most successful forms led to chemistry :D
| quote: | Originally posted by Blake
I disagree. In fact, it's entirely possible that we live at the end of times. |
lol @ Moor:p
And it could well be true that the world ends tomorrow. It's just unlikely... if it does end, though, I just hope it ends on the hands of a dubstep-playing alien armada. |
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