PATTERNS IN NATURE

What is the main message in Newton's Principia, according to the text?

• a. Laws of nature

• b. Specific discoveries

• c. Evidence of mathematical modeling

• d. Differential equations

England's mathematicians engaged in sterile vituperation over Leibniz's alleged theft of Newton's ideas about:

• a. Geometry

• b. Trigonometry

• c. Calculus

• d. Algebra

What did continental mathematicians cash in on regarding Newton's great insight?

• a. Celestial mechanics and other core topics

• b. Mathematical modeling

• c.Laws of motion

• d. Quantum physics

What type of differential equation refers to an unknown function of two or more variables?

• a. Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE)

• b. Linear Differential Equation

• c. Partial Differential Equation (PDE)

• d. Stochastic Differential Equation

Euler introduced PDEs in:

• a. 1700

• b. 1734

• c. 1750

• d. 1800