and it's an exploration that began in earnest and one that used mathematics with isaac newton and his come, essentially framing how civilized man understands the universe. the philosophical movement that arose from newton's mathematical concepts came to be called determinism, the belief that future events are necessitated by past and present events, in combination with the laws of nature. now, some scholars even took this one step further, suggesting that once the initial conditions of the universe were set, the rest of history was inevitable. this is one of those examples where a little bit of mathematics in the wrong hands can be dangerous. but on the other hand, the ideas that there's a clockwork universe or that there's a regularity to the world as described by newton's laws is in fact something that we know to be true for much of physical phenomena. so, with his three laws of motion -- the laws of inertia, acceleration, and reciprocal actions -- newton was the first to mathematically describe how an object's motion through space and time can be calculated by adding up the infinit

isaac newton, paul durant, they were functional in society. in fact, newton was actually a member of parliament during his lifetime. and so we're now beginning to understand that autism and savant behavior are not inevitably linked, that it may be possible to ip deuce this kind of -- induce this kind of behavior, and we think that asperger's is a form of this where you can actually control it. you can actually function in society with as asperger's and still have these mathematical powers. in fact, one study done just last year at silicon valley showed that many silicon valley engineers have a higher rate of asperger's than the average population. but you probably knew that already watching "the big bang theory," right? clueless, these people are sometimes clueless when it comes to women. but this is something that we're still investigating, so we have a long ways to go before we fullly understand autism -- fully understand autism and asperger's. but now that we have brain scans, we can actually see that their brain is slightly different from t

isaac newton. you know what? a lot of people think that isaac newton discovered gravity. he didn't, the cavemen knew about gravity. the cave women knew about gravity. what newton discovered was what? check your neighbor and see if your neighbor be knowing. in other words, did you get a chance to look through the chapter? what did newton discover about gravity? newton discovered that gravity is what, gang? universal, universal, you're right. universal, that gravity extends everywhere. and what this equation tells us? the equation of gravity just tells us that there's an attractive force, 'f' between all things and for any two things that attractive force depends upon, is proportional to, is related to the product of the masses of the two things. this might be a planet, one. this might be another planet, two. those two planets are tugging on each other with the force that depends very much on how much mass they have, but it also peters out with distance square. as the distance between those planets or those chunks of matter or those particles, as the distance between increas

isaac newton hands down is the greatest scientist to relent. einstein said that. and he was a very strange person. he could not have small talk. you could not chitchat. he would be horrible at a dinner conversation. you would not want to invite him for dinner. and if you want to see somebody with as burgers and room, just wants the big bang theory on cbs television. as burgers people are strange. they don't make eye contact. they are clumsy with conversations, clueless when it comes to women, just like on the big bang theory. yes of the greatest nobel prize winners suffered fries burgers and. and then there is a true genius of modern times, albert einstein. did you know that we have einstein's brain? when einstein died in 1955 the doctor who did the autopsy kidnapped the brain without anyone's permission. he took to bring home and kept it in a cooler for three years. it was sitting in his living room underneath some books. one day he drove across country and put einstein's brain and the manager. einstein's brain went through a lot of problems over decades because

isaac newton hands down is the greatest scientist to relent. einstein said that. and he was a very strange person. he could not have small talk. you could not chitchat. he would be horrible at a dinner conversation. you would not want to invite him for dinner. and if you want to see somebody with as burgers and room, just wants the big bang theory on cbs television. as burgers people are strange. they don't make eye contact. they are clumsy with conversations, clueless when it comes to women, just like on the big bang theory. yes of the greatest nobel prize winners suffered fries burgers and. and then there is a true genius of modern times, albert einstein. did you know that we have einstein's brain? when einstein died in 1955 the doctor who did the autopsy kidnapped the brain without anyone's permission. he took to bring home and kept it in a cooler for three years. it was sitting in his living room underneath some books. one day he drove across country and put einstein's brain and the manager. einstein's brain went through a lot of problems over decades because

isaac newton, in the 1660s, demonstrated that white light was composed of a mixture of lights of different colors. he did it with prisms. prisms break white light into its component colors. but why are there colors? what makes red different than violet? light travels in waves, and each color has its own wavelength. let's look at red. here is the wave. the distance from the tops of these waves is called the wavelength. now let's look at violet. the wavelength of violet is shorter than that of red. it's because light has different wavelengths that there are different colors. until the 19th century, colors of the rainbow weren't available to everyone. the blue indigo and red madder root, dyes used to color these persian carpets, were derived from agricultural crops grown on plantations in india and turkey. the supply of these dyes depended in part on the weather. the process of coloring yarn was not simple, nor was weaving the carpets. colorful rugs like these were expensive. the same was true of clothing. colorful fashions and carpets could be enjoyed by the wealthy, by kings and queens. ord

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must go back to the 17th century, when the english scientist robert hooke challenged his rival isaac newtonpendently creates a new branch of mathematics, calculus. newton needed a way to notate the incremental changes of where a planet was on its orbit and then to be able to add up all of those incremental changes to actually construct the orbit. he also needed a way to figure out how fast it was moving and where it would move next. he saw unity; gravity didn't end at the atmosphere. newton was the first to show that the motion of objects on earth and planetary motion are governed by the same set of natural laws. his famous equation "force equals mass times acceleration," f=ma, neatly sums that up. this same math he used to study the movement of inanimate objects in the 17th century today assists us in calculating the behavior of animate objects. thanks to newton, calculus provides a mathematical language that allows us to measure a variable. for instance, for a bird, the angle of flight, or for a car, its speed. but birds and drivers are their own entities with reactions and influence fact