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Did you know undergrads at Oxford in 1335 were solving homework problems about … |
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@johncarlosbaez It certainly helped over the centuries to move from mostly geom… |
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@johncarlosbaez Did they understand/treat friction and air resistance as separa… |
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Post #AnXX3CxEHWVwjhbvHM by [email protected] |
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@dougmerritt - one thing the Greeks never did is draw a picture where one of th… |
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Post #AnXahxyPBY4C0bHsUS by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez > I don't know when his book came out, and AI tells me i… |
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Post #AnXlrWvPhhR8VmeQ9A by [email protected] |
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@escape_velocity - I'm not an expert on this, but medieval physicists (natu… |
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@johncarlosbaez ...There is also reason to believe that Oresme wrote the bulk, … |
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Post #AnXmPktgGKuDguA03M by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez "...Moreover, if the De proportionibus was not written aft… |
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Post #AnXmPkzLvFRVyUoWtU by [email protected] |
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@dougmerritt - okay, thanks, this is all very helpful! One reason is that if … |
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Post #AnXmsMtgZYzPedo3M0 by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez Given the indeterminate complexities the author explained, it&#… |
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Post #AnXqghAzkUnUtIalXc by [email protected] |
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@dougmerritt - but I can see what sort of problems are in π π’πππ … |
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Post #AnXu4AEECR21W8zE80 by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez I understand wide and varied interests, but "Merton Colleg… |
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Post #AnXvekS36JjMEwSZEG by [email protected] |
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@dougmerritt - well, Merton College was the focal point of cutting-edge mathema… |
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Post #AnXwKOwTSiFNh0YK7k by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez Oh right, I had forgotten your opening sentence by now.My bad. |
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Post #AnXwmbVKLkl0lIIq8G by [email protected] |
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@dougmerritt - I fixed my original post, btw. The folks at Merton also came u… |
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Post #AnXyfBQH7bT1kjWrku by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez I'm reading about the history of perspective, in particular… |
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Post #AnXyfBY4ebho8vB5ua by [email protected] |
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@SylviaFysica - that's really cool. What are "abacus school books&qu… |
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Post #AnY2evykwPgxffnI0G by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez i read a book while i was on vacation over the summer called &q… |
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@johncarlosbaez Bear in mind that "undergraduate" is really an anachr… |
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@johncarlosbaez The "professional" degrees (law, medicine, theology) … |
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@jer_gib - thanks, it's great to have someone from Oxford weigh in. I read… |
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Post #AnZIjPt3TjF40pFLpQ by [email protected] |
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@jer_gib - For an English version of the physics chapter of Heytesbury's οΏ½… |
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@maxpool - I'm glad there aren't math duels now: the scene is already c… |
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Post #AnZMxKyAxRGedFXEqe by [email protected] |
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@johncarlosbaez The Paul Spade book is in the Bodleian Library. Are you still i… |
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@johncarlosbaez @jer_gib Am I the only one who is unable to see the unicode cha… |
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Post #AnZygA3G5sxI6c9KHw by [email protected] |
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@MartinEscardo - ugh, sorry, they are standard san-serif italic unicode charact… |
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Post #AnZz1QGH1MUySeNKYi by [email protected] |
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@jer_gib - no, I'm in California. I expect to be in Edinburgh May-December… |
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@johncarlosbaez @jer_gib Thanks.I am just on a MacBook Air M2 running macOS Seq… |
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@johncarlosbaez can do italics with \ (\textit{the text}\ ) |
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Post #AnaGCiVBF4zLRHJqYS by [email protected] |
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@TomL@johncarlosbaez No, this is a mathstodon-only extension and doesn't wo… |
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Post #AnaGCif6eAvbw3xm1g by [email protected] |
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@pounce @TomL - I do italices on Mathstodon by doing \(this\) and then clicking… |
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@johncarlosbaez Do come and visit! |
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@jer_gib - Thanks, that would be great! I haven't been to Oxford in quite … |
