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Question from victoria, a student:

i need help making a poster on emilie du chatelet a great mathematician can you describe the newton principia because i know that she worked on it

thanks,
victoria

Victoria,

Try Winkled, etc. For example:

Penny

Hi Victoria.

St. Andrew's University in the UK has some excellent biographies
online of many mathematicians. Here's is Chatelet's:
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Chatelet.html

Stephen La Rocque.>

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