Timeline for Which mathematical ideas have done most to change history?
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| Sep 25, 2010 at 14:55 | history | edited | Jérôme JEAN-CHARLES | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
meaningless "never ending machines" --> perpetual motion machine
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| Sep 25, 2010 at 14:53 | comment | added | Jérôme JEAN-CHARLES | Absolutely: I try to edit/correct it. | |
| Sep 24, 2010 at 15:27 | comment | added | sleepless in beantown | @jerome-jean-charles, I presume by "never ending machines" you mean "perpetual motion machines". I agree with your point about the usefulness of negative results for defining which pathways do not need to be searched further. | |
| Sep 23, 2010 at 23:58 | history | edited | Jérôme JEAN-CHARLES | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
Minor typos and formating.
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| Aug 13, 2010 at 2:28 | history | answered | Jérôme JEAN-CHARLES | CC BY-SA 2.5 |