'Tis the season to celebrate the birthday of the great man who brought Light to the human race. Yes, Sir Isaac Newton was born 25 December (old style Julian calander).

...verrrry interesting.

and I thought all he did was to bring Gravity to Physics.

So, what was the name of the German Physicist of the same era who also helped in developing "the Calculus"?

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I believe that was Riemann, A-1. Riemann Sums still give me nightmares after 17 years.

In honor of Sir Issaac Newton, perhaps we should all drop apples on one another.

and Newton independently of each other created the calculus.

Newton probably did this first, but Leibniz published the basic theory before Newton.



An active eunuch (I know that is like "military intelligence" or "compassionate conservative") has a lot of time to read.

Leibniz wrote a fine response to the work of Newton's friend John Locke.

I believe it was Leibniz.

He was the extroverted socializer, if memory serves and Newton was the introverted socially isolated type.

Riemann was responsible for Riemannian Geometry. You know, the antithesis of Euclidian Geometry. For almost every Euclidian postulate there is a Riemannian postulate that states the opposite.

Euclid..parallel lines never meet...

Riemann...parallel lines always meet...and so forth...

It turns out that the universe is in fact closer to Riemannian Geometry than Euclidian Geometry.

It only seems Euclidian.

Lot of things in life are not what they seem to be...

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