Émilie Du Châtelet and the conservation of energy
Her brilliant work is still the standard reference in French on Newtonian mechanics
Outrageous behaviour among mathematicians
In the ‘calculus wars’ Britain claimed it was invented by Newton, while the Germans insisted it was Leibniz
Euler: a mathematician without equal and an overall nice guy
The vast body of mathematics owes more to Euler than to any other single person
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