Re: The Einstein Effect

On 08/01/2025 17:42, Don wrote:

john larkin wrote:

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https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/einstein-and-adam-grant-agree-the-puzzle-principle-will-make-you-instantly-smarter/91102339
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Cohen's book looks interesting, so I ordered it.
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I'm now reading Gleick's short biography of Isaac Newton, who was a
very weird guy.

 Einstein loved the sound of his own metaphysical bark and wasn't above
fudging the score:
 <https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/58/9/43/399405/Einstein-Versus-the-Physical-Review-A-great>
 Regardless, my followup isn't about this thread's titular Einstein.
It's about Newton.
      "Did you know? It was AYABHATA & not Newton or (sic) Leibniz who
     first developed Calculus"
      <https://x.com/Aelthemplaer/status/1874573331330167032>

I knew they had some interesting results but not that they had discovered full blown calculus (at least in differential forms).
The paper by the Manchester & Exeter team is online free access here:
http://ckraju.net/Joseph/PA-3-Manchester-2007-paper.pdf
Very interesting - thanks for pointing it out.
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Martin Brown