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The Band-Aid Principle

In: 3.1416 And All That

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  • Philip J. Davis
  • William G. Chinn

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IT IS ALWAYS a delight when simple ideas lead to great consequences. Newton’s apple led to the law of the mutual attraction of bodies, and the consequences of this can not be set forth adequately in fifty volumes. The story that I’m going to tell here is not so well known as Newton’s apple. Its consequences are not so great. But the story is easier to understand: all that is required is a bit of geometrical and mechanical intuition. And it is a fine illustration of how mathematics tries constantly to understand and explain a complicated situation by an appeal to a related simple situation.

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  • Philip J. Davis & William G. Chinn, 1985. "The Band-Aid Principle," Springer Books, in: 3.1416 And All That, chapter 15, pages 108-116, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-1-4615-8519-0_15
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-8519-0_15
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