After a long absence period, we turn today with the series Spanish Mathematical Street map with a monographic one on Sir Isaac Newton.
Newton was a physicist, philosopher, inventor, alchemist and English mathematician, author of the Philosophiae naturalis begins mathematica, or Mathematical Beginning of the nature. If someone asks us algúh made famous of this English, sure mathematician that automatically we think about the Apple, this history according to which the Law of Universal Gravitation occurred to Newton after receiving the blow of an apple on having fallen down.
Nevertheless, in the mathematical aspect, quezás is more known by it for being one of the parents of the Differential calculus. Across his mentor, namesake and predecessor in the Chair Lucasiana, Isaac Barrow, published his book Analysis per aequationes number terminorum infinites in that, according to proper Newton, the introduction happens to a powerful general method, which it would develop later: his differential and integral calculus.
But it was it who was not the only one that invented this powerful tool, but another mathematician, this time German, Leinbiz, also met on her. Newton and Leibniz led a sour polemic on the responsibility of the development of this branch of the mathematics, although, finally, the historians of the science think that both developed the calculation independently. Anyway, the Leibniz notation, as, it has been, to all lights, which more success has had between the mathematicians and physicists, although Newton’s notation as also it is used in some more practical cases. This polemic divided moreover the British and continental mathematicians, although the results exchange was not capable of preventing between his two protagonists.
And without much ado delay, we are going to present to you some of the streets devoted to Newton and that, thanks to Google Street View (and to his recent enlargement to practically the whole national territory), we can see.
First of all, I bring to you the street that in my city, Seville, they have dedicated him.
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There talks each other of a street in the ancient enclosure of the EXPO ‘92, where most of the nearby streets is dedicated to historical personages of the science and the technology, and not very far from which Spain has developed the Event Blog’ 09.
In other one of the cities where I have lived, Madrid, we meet a street devoted to Newton.
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It is a question of one of the streets of the university enclosure of the UAM, where also I worked, and that in his majority are dedicated to excellent personages of the science and the culture.
In A Coruna, we find another street devoted to Newton.
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This street is in the Managerial Park A Grela Bens, the most ancient of the province, and in which, again, most of his streets are dedicated to international scientists.
Finally, in a residential area of the outskirts of Badajoz, we meet diverse streets devoted to scientists and mathematicians. In particular, the dedicated one to Newton
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And, of gift, parallel other one dedicated to big Pitágoras de Samos:
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Surely there are more streets devoted to Newton, in Carbajosa of the Sacred one, (Salamanca), Arlanzón (Burgos), San Jose of the Corner (Seville) or even in Mataró (Barcelona). Nevertheless, if we look for streets in Spain dedicated to Leibniz, only we find one (at least I only have found this one), and about this street we speak already at the end of the previous delivery of the Spanish Mathematical Street map. Therefore, for our Spanish street map, the winner of the polemic Newton-Leibniz is, in view of the results, Newton.