Jérôme Perez
JP
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3 articles published in Tangente
History and CultureN°69Jan 21, 2019Lagrange and the analytical method
At the time of his death, Isaac Newton was proud to have found a method for solving problems in natural philosophy, but he was aware of its limitations. The Moon's trajectory is described only very approximately by the two-body problem. It fell to Joseph-Louis Lagrange to make a spectacular breakthrough.
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History and CultureN°69Jan 18, 2019Newton's synthetic method
How does the Earth, of mass m, move around the Sun, of mass M, under gravity alone? To answer this question with something more than philosophical assertions, Newton proposed a synthetic method inspired by the description of motion.
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History and CultureN°69Jan 18, 2019A science in motion
Neither mathematics nor physics stands still! Until recently, the two disciplines went hand in hand, offering a natural philosophy. They sought to uncover, describe, and explain nature's hidden laws.
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