JASON ROSS

Any true principle of nature reflects a truly human idea, unlike the dead mechanics of Descartes' absurd theories of light and motion. Jason makes the case by drawing on examples from Gauss' work on curvature and the fundamental theorem of algebra, Fermat's work on light and least action, and Leibniz's principle of vis viva.

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Source Material:

  • Abstract made before the conference
  • Boungainville textbook containing d'Alembert’s proof
  • Lagrange's proof of the FTA
  • Fermat showing up Descartes (in his writing on maxima and minima)
  • My derivation of the conservation of momentum from vis viva and Leibniz’s relativity
  • Dynamis issue containing Sarah Stuart’s article
  • My editorial from that issue
  • Means: showing that the arithmetic-geometric mean in the Gauss elliptical ring paper is a continuous harmonic mean