Magnificent Principia Exploring Isaac Newton's Masterpiece

Name: Magnificent Principia Exploring Isaac Newton's Masterpiece
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ISBN: 9781616147457

ISBN-10: 1616147458

ISBN-13: 9781616147457

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Authors: Colin Pask

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Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg has written that "all that has happened since 1687 is a gloss on the Principia." Now you too can appreciate the significance of this stellar work, regarded by many as the greatest scientific contribution of all time. Despite its dazzling reputation, Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, or simply the Principia, remains a mystery for many people. Few of even the most intellectually curious readers, including professional scientists and mathematicians, have actually looked in the Principia or appreciate its contents. Mathematician Pask seeks to remedy this deficit in this accessible guided tour through Newton's masterpiece. Using the final…

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List price: $27.50
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Publishers
Publication date: 9/3/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 528
Size: 6.37" wide x 9.25" long x 1.36" tall
Weight: 1.826
Language: English

Colin Pask (Canberra, Australia) is an emeritus professor of mathematics and a visiting fellow and professor in the School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences at the University of New South Wales in Canberra, Australia.



Preface: Why You Should Read This Book


Acknowledgments


Plan of the' Book and Reading Plans



Introductory Material



Introducing Our Hero



Setting the Scene



A First Look at the Prinripia



How the Principia Begins



Newton's Preface: Setting Out Methods and Aims



Fundamentals



Newton's Laws of Motion and Their Immediate Consequences



Mathematical Methods



Developing the Basics of Dynamics



Down to Business



What Isaac Did Next: Finding Forces



The Inverse-Square Law: Triumph and Controversy



Interlude: The Modem Formulation



Time and a Mathematical Gem



Completing the Single-Body Formalism



Rotating Orbits



On to More Complex Situations



Constrained Motion



Many Bodies: Triumphs and Challenges



Big Bodies and Superb Theorems



Here Endeth Book I



About Principia Book II



Starting on Book II



Newton the Experimentalist



What Lies Beneath



The Majestic Principia Book III



Book III and Gravity



Theory of the Solar System



Earthly Phenomena



Challenges: The Moon and Comets



The Concluding General Scholium



Reception and Influence of Principia



Reception and Influence



Mechanics after Newton


Epilogue


Notes


Index