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How Isaac Newton Discovered the Binomial Power Series (2022)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-isaac-newton-discovered-the-binomial-power-series-20220831/
32•FromTheArchives•3d ago

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DoctorOetker•1d ago
lots of "math processing error". perhaps just render the formulas?
Icy0•2h ago
I'm not getting any processing errors. Seems to render fine on both Chromium and Firefox.
cuttothechase•2h ago
yep, on Google chrome it all appears as unrendered math latex variables. This article is unreadable because of this.
garyrob•1h ago
Works for me in Firefox; fails in Safari.
defanor•1h ago
I get those processing "math processing errors" in Firefox, after some time. Some of the error messages, which appear right before those:

  GET https://www.quantamagazine.org/wp-content/themes/quanta2024/frontend/js/mathjax/fonts/HTML-CSS/TeX/png/imagedata.js?V=2.7.0 NS_ERROR_CORRUPTED_CONTENT
  The resource from “https://www.quantamagazine.org/wp-content/themes/quanta2024/frontend/js/mathjax/fonts/HTML-CSS/TeX/png/imagedata.js?V=2.7.0” was blocked due to MIME type (“text/html”) mismatch (X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff).
  Loading failed for the <script> with source “https://www.quantamagazine.org/wp-content/themes/quanta2024/frontend/js/mathjax/fonts/HTML-CSS/TeX/png/imagedata.js?V=2.7.0”. how-isaac-newton-discovered-the-binomial-power-series-20220831:1:1
  Uncaught TypeError: c.FONTDATA.FONTS.MathJax_Main[8212][5] is undefined
The URL leads to error 404.
stevenjgarner•1h ago
I think the significance of the Epistola Posterior only really emerged decades after it was written, when the bitter Newton–Leibniz priority controversy erupted. It served as Newton’s key evidence, by revealing that he had the main ideas well before Leibniz’s first publications (1684). The letter bolstered the Royal Society’s eventual judgment favoring Newton’s independent discovery.

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