sci.physics.electromag

On Mar 23, 6:21=A0pm, "Robert J. Kolker" wrote:
> maxwell wrote:
> > Wrong again, Bob. =A0Calculus was introduced to SOLVE the equations, not=

> > to derive the ideas, which were in the tradition of natural philosophy
> > - a subject that mathematicians like yourself feel really
> > uncomfortable with. =A0Check out Principia.
>
> I read it cover to cover. Newton published -Princiipia- using
> traditional geometric language because his calculus methods were
> relatively unknown to his target audience. He invented calculus to talk
> about motion. Calculus is the language of motion. He could not have
> formulated his physics without calculus.
>
> It turns out the later developments of classical mechanics required the
> least action principle and the calculus of variations to be stated. See
> the works of Jacobi, Lagrange and Hamilton.
>
> Bob Kolker
Wrong again, Bob. Calculus was not 'relatively' unknown by Newton's
contemporaries - it was totally unknown, since Newton wished to keep
his 'secret weopon' to himself. He used geometry as his expositional
method because it would be understood by ALL his fellow
mathematicians. The later developments of CM by mathematicians is
where these guys forgot Newton's physics & just invented more
continuum math. The world is NOT continuous, it is discrete; that's
why the math does NOT work.