Surely Galileo’s concept of inertia was first? no? Ie an object in a state of motion possesses an “inertia” that causes it to remain in that state of motion unless an external force acts on it.
Considered the toughest undergrad math class at Harvard—and by that assessment, very likely the toughest in the world—Math 55 is not for the faint of heart.
The problem may be to do with the fact that mathematicians have been allowed to name things. I guess they felt they were qualified to do so because they saw physicist name things and decide to have a bash at it themselves.
Fortunately, physicists trump chemists and use chemistry words like “metal” to mean any element above helium. Why not? They got away with it and it’s their world too.
Let’s just hope those clever fundamentals mathematicians don’t start trumping the physicists with language. After all, this is the “real” world we are dealing with here. (joke)
Why Mathematicians Should Stop Naming Things After Each Other - Issue 89: The Dark Side - Nautilus
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This paper applies simple maths of probability to tackle some interesting and fundamental questions including Murphy’s law…….
and the origin of our universe.
Gallileo’s concept was different from Newtons, dunno who had the idea first but that’s a different thing altogether.
Surely Galileo’s concept of inertia was first? no? Ie an object in a state of motion possesses an “inertia” that causes it to remain in that state of motion unless an external force acts on it.
linking to Ash, who knows a thing or two about Mass
…. and only 1 type of 55er groupies!
Unrelated cheesy question:
What is the volume of a disk with radius z and height a?
Answer:
Pi z z a!
The problem may be to do with the fact that mathematicians have been allowed to name things. I guess they felt they were qualified to do so because they saw physicist name things and decide to have a bash at it themselves.
Fortunately, physicists trump chemists and use chemistry words like “metal” to mean any element above helium. Why not? They got away with it and it’s their world too.
Let’s just hope those clever fundamentals mathematicians don’t start trumping the physicists with language. After all, this is the “real” world we are dealing with here. (joke)
Wait up, from this subreddit I hear of Calc 3 – what gives?
“Why is Calc 1 called “Single variable calculus” and why is Calc 3 called “Multivariable Calculus”
Didn’t realise this existed, nice tool.
Watch this for context on the sword. PS, killed many people once he got power from parliament, and died a virgin. Just sayin’
I read it, its good, though he has got better at telling stories of late. Highly recommended, he’s as hot as it gets for a physicist.
‘The Quantum Universe: Everything that can happen does happen’
Looks like Cox has pinched this phrase and murphy’s law for a publication, though it doesn’t get a great review here.
Brian Cox nails this one right here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNfWKARlhEM
by saying some thing CAN happen, physical laws mean that it MUST happen, thats what a law is for.
This paper applies simple maths of probability to tackle some interesting and fundamental questions including Murphy’s law…….
and the origin of our universe.