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Newton wasn't above abusing his position as head of the Royal Society to discredit Leibniz. Wolfram reminds me of Newton—a self-conscious genius, exceedingly je
by dataphyte 10y ago
Newton wasn't above abusing his position as head of the Royal Society to discredit Leibniz. Wolfram reminds me of Newton—a self-conscious genius, exceedingly jealous of his intellectual primacy. I think Wolfram even compares NKS to Newton's Principia on the book's dust jacket if I recall.
- awinter-py 10y agonewton stuck a knitting needle in his eye to find out where colors come from
- mattnewton 10y agoHe didn't do a bad job at that. He also wrote over 100 books on alchemy (that he didn't publish because it would have been illegal to practice), tried to predict the apocalypse from the Bible, predicted a Jewish repopulation is Jerusalem from similar crazy bible numerologies, and, because he saw himself as a priest of the natural world, never married.
- valuearb 10y agoDoes not sound that different than the typical systems architect.
- jacquesm 10y agoI could not help but note your last name...
- hnbroseph 10y ago> because he saw himself as a priest of the natural world, never married some speculate that it was because he loved another (also unmarried) man, Fatio de Duillier.
- pbhjpbhj 10y agoNot a knitting needle but a bodkin, at least that's what I heard. A bodkin [needle] is for threading and has a rounded end. As I heard it he was investigating the action of the eye rather than colour per se and managed to induce visual artefacts, possibly by contacting the optic nerve. Citation with corroboration/correction appreciated.
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- hprotagonist 10y agothe difference being that newton was generally right.
- icelancer 10y agoAbout Leibniz stealing his work? Or his inferior notation methods?
- bitwize 10y agoWhen I first heard of The Big Bang Theory I though Sheldon Cooper was, specifically, supposed to be a parody of Wolfram.