Robert McNees on Nostr: Fwiw, I’ve seen a few dates attached to this result. Some sources say Newton ...
Fwiw, I’ve seen a few dates attached to this result. Some sources say Newton received Bernoulli’s “programma” announcing the problem on 1/29; others say it was late 1696 and then the solution appeared in Philosophical Transactions in January 1697.
Newton’s niece Catherine Conduitt recalled him receiving the problem in January 1697. She said he returned home from the Tower of London at 4pm tired from “the hurry of the great recoinage,” then staying up until 4am to solve the problem.
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