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Fermat's Principle of Least Time: Physics from Optimization

Every idea in this atlas arrives with the people who fought for it. Fermat's Principle of Least Time: Physics from Optimization did not appear fully formed — it was argued over, abandoned, and rediscovered across the Chains of Correspondence (1560 CE - 1665 CE).

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