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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I don't know what any of those are, but surely lagrangian mechanics was invented by Lagrange, right

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago*

    Euler thought up or improved way too many things for them all to be named after him, it would get too confusing.

    From his wiki: "Euler's work averages 800 pages a year from 1725 to 1783. He also wrote over 4500 letters and hundreds of manuscripts. It has been estimated that Leonhard Euler was the author of a quarter of the combined output in mathematics, physics, mechanics, astronomy, and navigation in the 18th century." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler

    And a relevant xkcd:

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    hmmm... I was going to go with continuum mechanics as that seems made up. Maybe Euler contributed something to Lagrange.

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