Comments on: Four Pillars: On expertise http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/06/15/four-pillars-on-expertise/ a blog about information Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:20:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: JP http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/06/15/four-pillars-on-expertise/comment-page-1/#comment-883 JP Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:19:50 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/06/15/four-pillars-on-expertise/#comment-883 I believe so. Wikipedia does a reasonable job on the story. You can find it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_v._Leibniz_calculus_controversy Blogs do work on the print-bugs-are-shallow principle, but things can go wrong here as well. Google brought up this beaut: http://www.math.rochester.edu/people/faculty/rarm/newton.html Which makes me think that linking to references is a key element of the blog. I believe so. Wikipedia does a reasonable job on the story. You can find it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_v._Leibniz_calculus_controversy

Blogs do work on the print-bugs-are-shallow principle, but things can go wrong here as well. Google brought up this beaut:

http://www.math.rochester.edu/people/faculty/rarm/newton.html

Which makes me think that linking to references is a key element of the blog.

]]> By: John http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/06/15/four-pillars-on-expertise/comment-page-1/#comment-881 John Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:52:36 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/06/15/four-pillars-on-expertise/#comment-881 Didn't Newton leave his calculus work unpublished for 20 years ? That's how Stephenson explains that conflict with Leibniz in System of the World anwyay... Didn’t Newton leave his calculus work unpublished for 20 years ? That’s how Stephenson explains that conflict with Leibniz in System of the World anwyay…

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