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Isaac Newton Discovered the Binomial Power Series
- behnamoh 4y agoi mean, so what? tell me sth that actually improves my life, not useless facts.
- MontagFTB 4y agoFrom the article: > Stepping back a bit from the details, we see several lessons here about problem-solving. If a problem is too hard, change it. If it seems too specific, generalize it. Newton did both and got results more important and more powerful than what he originally sought.
- MontagFTB 4y agoProper title should be, “How Isaac Newton Discovered the Binomial Power Series”. Dropping the “how” makes it a statement of fact instead of an interesting lead into an article.
- ergocoder 4y agoVeritasium has a video about Newton discovering binomial power series and forever changed the way we computed pie. Previously people bisected circle which was painfully slow.