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#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science
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What Is Calculus?
Calculus is a set of mathematical techniques that enable you to investigate what we now call functions. Newton's ability to play with his ideas mathematically is what solidified the initial intuition that you could have was that he had action at a distance. The notion that two things might interact at a distance with one another without direct contact goes back to antiquity. Only there it would thought of more as a sympathetic reaction, you know, to a magnet and a piece of iron.
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