"To us probability is the very guide of life." -- (Bishop Butler, Preface to Analogy.)
Emilie du Chatelet (France, 1706-1749). Her major work, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, was a French translation on Newton's Principia. She also produced a scholarly manuscript entitled Dissertation on the Nature and Propagation of Fire. du Chatelet was brilliant with numbers. The French philosopher Voltaire claimed he witnessed her find the product of two nine-digit numbers using only mental calculation.
What question did Herkimer ask when he took his pet termites into a saloon?
Answer: "Is the bar tender here?"
Herky's friends:
DAN D. LYON...a fellow who liked yellow flowers
BARB D. WYRE...she made protective fences that nobody wanted to climb over.
This is the first assignment for the second semester.
ASSIGNMENT #53
Reading: Section 9.1 (pages 456 - 467, and Summary p. 469)
Exercises: 9.8 (do neatly on sheet of paper provided), 9.9, 9.10 (can write responses neatly in book).
