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- [[File:The method of fluxions and infinite series p.20.gif|thumb|400px|Newton's introduction of the notions ''"fluent"'' and ''"fluxion"'' in his 1736 bo ...Fluxions]]''.<ref>{{MathWorld|Fluxion}}</ref> Fluxions and fluents made up Newton's early [[calculus]].<ref>{{Britannica|fluxion}}</ref> ...5 KB (800 words) - 04:31, 21 February 2025
- ...wton line.svg|thumb|upright=1.5|{{mvar|E, K, F}} lie on a common line, the Newton line]] {{distinguish|Newton-Gauss line|Isaac Newton line}} ...3 KB (349 words) - 04:27, 26 December 2024
- ...of dice.<ref name="wolfram">{{MathWorld|urlname=Newton-PepysProblem |title=Newton-Pepys Problem}}</ref> In 1693 [[Samuel Pepys]] and [[Isaac Newton]] corresponded over a problem posed to Pepys by a school teacher named John ...5 KB (843 words) - 18:37, 20 December 2024
- {{Short description|Mathematical work by Isaac Newton}} ...anuary 2012 {{ISBN|0-444-50871-6}}</ref> is a mathematical work by [[Isaac Newton]]. ...9 KB (1,268 words) - 15:33, 27 November 2024
- ...arrive at this formula. In 1687, Newton devoted the second volume of his [[Newton's Principia|Principia Mathematica]] to fluid mechanics.<ref name="FofA 1.1" ...experimental evidence have shown that this formula is inaccurate; although Newton's analysis correctly predicted that the force was proportional to the densi ...4 KB (665 words) - 17:42, 21 December 2024
- ...ntasy and Science Fiction'' in 1963.<ref name="Asimov">{{cite book |first= Isaac |last= Asimov |title= Asimov on Astronomy |publisher= Coronet Books |date= According to [[Isaac Newton]]'s [[law of universal gravitation]] ...3 KB (469 words) - 18:44, 4 August 2023
- ....ox.ac.uk/node/38254|title=Ulrike Tillmann appointed Director of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences|publisher=University of Oxford Mathemat ...r-of-the-isaac-newton-institute/ |access-date=14 March 2022 |website=Isaac Newton Institute |language=EN}}</ref> and was the [[Emmy Noether]] Lecturer of the ...9 KB (1,131 words) - 22:38, 4 February 2025
- ...ef>{{citation|pages=139, 495, & 551|title=The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton, Vol. 3|first=Derek Thomas|last=Whiteside|publisher=Cambridge University Pr ...8 KB (1,264 words) - 13:18, 10 March 2024
- [[File:Newton-Gauss Line Default Figure.png|thumb| {{legend-line|solid lime|'''Newton-Gauss line''' through the midpoints {{mvar|L, M, N}} of the diagonals}}]] ...14 KB (2,016 words) - 15:24, 22 November 2024
- ...Then the derivation was shared with his students and peers by Gregory.<ref>Newton, I. "Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica", translation by A. Motte ...ook |last1=Whiteside |first1=D. T. |title=The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton |volume=6 |date=1974 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |pages=456, ...15 KB (2,576 words) - 12:40, 24 February 2025
- ...bodies in a centripetal system. This method is utilised in [[Isaac Newton|Newton's]] [[Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica|Principia]]. ...5 KB (705 words) - 16:49, 15 February 2025
- {{Short description|Extend Newton's laws of motion to rigid bodies}} ...], '''Euler's laws of motion''' are [[equations of motion]] which extend [[Newton's laws of motion]] for [[point particle]] to [[rigid body]] motion.<ref nam ...8 KB (1,346 words) - 21:23, 1 November 2024
- ...nventions {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Isaac-Newton |access-date=2023-12-10 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref> [[Newton's laws of motion|Newtons laws of motion]] can translate to rotational laws. ...9 KB (1,303 words) - 11:09, 3 May 2024
- ...tes that of the 5, "the first and the last are described by [[Isaac Newton|Newton]], by means of the quadrature (i.e. integration) of the hyperbola and the e ...great historical significance as in Proposition 9 of the Principia Book 1, Newton proves that if a body moves along an equiangular spiral, under the action o ...9 KB (1,300 words) - 02:19, 3 June 2024
- * 665 - [[Brahmagupta]] discovers a second order Newton-Stirling interpolation for <math>\sin (x+\epsilon)</math>, ...arriot]] discovers an interpolation formula similar to [[Newton polynomial|Newton's interpolation formula]], ...14 KB (1,903 words) - 00:39, 2 March 2025
- ...[[Isaac Newton]]’s <ref name="Newton philo">{{cite book|last=Newton|first=Isaac|title=Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica|url=https://archive.org/ ...em solves that contradiction between “non-zero <math> \lambda </math>” and Newton's law. ...13 KB (1,829 words) - 12:08, 24 February 2025
- .../ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Duarte |first=F. J. |date=2000-05-01 |title=Newton, Prisms, and the “Opticals” of Tunable Lasers |url=https://opg.optica.org/o ...o quantify the angular dispersion in prism arrays, as described in [[Isaac Newton]]'s book ''[[Opticks]]'', and as deployed in dispersive instrumentation suc ...11 KB (1,650 words) - 17:32, 11 January 2025
- The first person to estimate the mass of the Sun was [[Isaac Newton]]. In his work ''[[Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica|Principia]]' ...4 KB (600 words) - 03:25, 23 August 2023
- ...many alternatives to the [[Calculus|classical calculus]] of [[Isaac Newton|Newton]] and [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz|Leibniz]]; for example, each of the infin ...8 KB (1,210 words) - 08:19, 2 August 2024
- [[Isaac Newton]]'s '''rotating spheres''' argument attempts to demonstrate that true [[Rot ...author2=Janet D. Finch}} and {{cite book |title=The Cambridge companion to Newton |url =https://books.google.com/books?id=3wIzvqzfUXkC&pg=PA43 |author=I. Ber ...24 KB (3,786 words) - 13:54, 21 November 2024