Rolling simplexes and their commensurability (Laws of mechanics as a problem of choice between metrics and measure)

It can hardly be determined who noticed that Newton’s first law could be interpreted as Kepler’s second law for any observer, located out of the line trajectory of a freely moving body, and hammered the nail into the lit for metrics. However, every next generation, paying no attention to the “Golden...

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Published in:Journal of mathematical sciences (New York, N.Y.) N.Y.), 2011-09, Vol.177 (6), p.860-861
Main Authors: Gerasimova, O. V., Razmyslov, Yu. P.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Mathematics
Mathematics and Statistics
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Summary:It can hardly be determined who noticed that Newton’s first law could be interpreted as Kepler’s second law for any observer, located out of the line trajectory of a freely moving body, and hammered the nail into the lit for metrics. However, every next generation, paying no attention to the “Golden Rule of Mechanics” and “Lever Rule,” with perseverance worthy of better cause has extracted it from the grave. In this paper, we bring forward additional (and forcible, from our standpoint) arguments in the direction that we should always study the original measure of things; in particular, we think that the set square can be most advantageously substituted for compasses at a certain stage of teaching plane geometry at school.
ISSN:1072-3374
1573-8795
DOI:10.1007/s10958-011-0513-5