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A Delicate Balance: Global Perspectives on Innovation and Tradition in the History of MathematicsProofs and Contexts: the Debate between Bernoulli and Newton on the Mathematics of Central Force Motion

A Delicate Balance: Global Perspectives on Innovation and Tradition in the History of... [In this essay I analyze the solutions given by Isaac Newton and Johann Bernoulli to a well-posed mathematical problem known in the eighteenth century as the ‘inverse problem of central forces’. This work prompted polemical exchanges between two rival groups: the first, whose leader was Newton, was based in Oxford, Cambridge, and London; the second, whose leading representatives were Leibniz and Bernoulli, was scattered througout Europe, though centered in Basel and Paris.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Delicate Balance: Global Perspectives on Innovation and Tradition in the History of MathematicsProofs and Contexts: the Debate between Bernoulli and Newton on the Mathematics of Central Force Motion

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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
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978-3-319-12029-4
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67 –102
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10.1007/978-3-319-12030-0_4
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[In this essay I analyze the solutions given by Isaac Newton and Johann Bernoulli to a well-posed mathematical problem known in the eighteenth century as the ‘inverse problem of central forces’. This work prompted polemical exchanges between two rival groups: the first, whose leader was Newton, was based in Oxford, Cambridge, and London; the second, whose leading representatives were Leibniz and Bernoulli, was scattered througout Europe, though centered in Basel and Paris.]

Published: May 13, 2015

Keywords: Polemical Exchange

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