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Copyright - & Cosmological Astrophysics (This article originally published on 26 Jan 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 & now in 2022.)
This Day in History ---
(Newton’s “Lion claw”)
On this day (Jan 26) in 1697, received and solved ’s problem. The Swiss mathematician Bernoulli had challenged his colleagues to solve it within six months. Newton not only solved the problem before going to bed that same night, but in doing so, a new branch of mathematics called the calculus of .
He had resolved the issue of specifying the curve connecting two points displayed from each other laterally, along which a body, acted upon only by , would fall in the shortest time. Newton, age 55, sent the solution to be published, at his request, anonymously. But the brilliant originality of the work betrayed his identity, for when Bernoulli saw the solution he commented, “We recognize the lion by his claw.”
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