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the 'second derivative' of position with respect to time, and the positions and masses involved. This is quite a big leap. | the 'second derivative' of position with respect to time, and the positions and masses involved. This is quite a big leap. | ||
Quite a lot of our school curriculum is learning about the mathematics they developed in that time. | Quite a lot of our school curriculum is learning about the mathematics they developed in that time. | ||
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They were laying the foundations of classical mechanics and the science on which we have built modern technology, industry and society. We have dug much deeper since, and found the universe actually behaves in very weird and wonderful ways indeed. Today's mathematicians and scientists are still spending their lives exploring and explaining it, there are still questions to be answered as challenging now as these questions were then. | They were laying the foundations of classical mechanics and the science on which we have built modern technology, industry and society. We have dug much deeper since, and found the universe actually behaves in very weird and wonderful ways indeed. Today's mathematicians and scientists are still spending their lives exploring and explaining it, there are still questions to be answered as challenging now as these questions were then. | ||