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4/23/2013 1:53:45 PM
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Been on a bit of a kick lately on trying to read the origins of stuff. We all get taught from modern books, and in math and science classes, the history of the things we are taught tends to get skimmed over or ignored. In fact, unless it is part of your major, many of these topics aren't taught in depth at all. I figured learning something from it's beginning would give me a much deeper understanding of it. So, I bought a copy of Principia and started reading. I have come to a couple conclusions. 1. Newton was insanely smart. 2. Newton was an asshole.
While the precision of his work in the book is spot on, it seems he purposely made the book as hard to read as humanly possible. I considered myself moderately smart until I got that book. I'm actually surprised there were enough people around back then that could follow Newton enough for his ideas to become as popular as fast as they did. Hats off to them.
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There is this incredible quote by Richard Westfall that I will never forget: "It has been my privilege at numerous times to know a number of brilliant men, men whom I acknowledge without hesitation to be my intellectual superiors. I have never, however, met one against whom I was unwilling to measure myself, so that it seemed reasonable to say that I was half as able, or a third, or a fourth, but in every case, a finite fraction. The end result of my study of Newton has served to convince me that with him there is no measure. He has become for me wholly other, one of the tiny handful of supreme geniuses who have shaped the categories of human intellect." Incredibly eloquent and absolutely true.
