Re: [Maxima-discuss] Is there a way to expand ((1 + y )^ (1/n)) for y and n > 0?

[Susmita/Rajib <bkp...@gm...>]

I would consider an honour to have a post from Dr. Stavros Macrakis,
if the poster is the same researcher that Google-Scholar and
ResearchGate have information pages on.

Have pity upon me, Sir, Dr. Macrakis, an inconspicuous ant compared to
your stature; and forgive me, Sir, for my insolence.

Sir, I was considering the books, American Reason (Susan Jacobi),
Brilliant America (Charles Pierce), The State Of The American Mind
(Amechi Okolo) when I read your reply. Great words, Sir. Yours, I must
admit.

I felt so annoyed at the long-dead William of Ockham and his razor and
the books that recorded the slow and pained growth of mathematics,
that I for a while thought of throwing those books on history away.
William must have sensed my wrath in his grave and must have tremored
in fright.

Not to mention that the books had me naively believe that Binomial
Theorem began its painstaking journey from 2nd Century BC by Euclid,
to 6th Century India right through the 10th Century Bhaskara who noted
the Combinatorial form in his book, right up to the Muslim Scholars
who disseminated the knowledge from India to Europe, then Blaise
Pascal and finally Issac Newton, who established the generalised
Binomial theorem with rational coefficients by 1665.

It is rightly upheld by the devout that the almighty God who, with one
twitch of his finger — of course, only He knows why he twitched it —
generated a complete treatise on all there is, on Supernatural Reality
including Mathematics, including Supersymmetry and Grand Unified Field
theory, and man is to show his allegiance to God by rote-ing and
repeating what God has his devout agents scribbled down.

Comprehension is never expected from His worshippers. The first among
us to understand a line of God's great Treatise, will rightly be
honoured with the title of a "Discoverer". So no one has taken up the
honour for being the discoverer of GUT.

I, the obdurate agnostic, had wrongly the temerity to believe on the
equally agnostic books of the history of mathematics that sought to
mislead us. By almost having me believe that Brook Taylor came later
than Newton and formalised the work of James Gregory, the proponent of
the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, his early version of the theorem
in 1712 and the series in 1715, but not until Joseph Lagrange from
1772, was the work complete.

I was also confused by my beliefs that Leonhard Euler's Integral of
the First Kind was also studied by Legendre and Binet and extension of
the factorial to non-integer arguments was first attempted by
Bernoulli & Goldbach in the 1720s, and was solved by Euler around
1729.

So, my Proposal, in the honour of your jolting me out of my stupor,
would be: 	 since Quantum Mechanics showed that Classical Mechanics
was a special case of the microscopic phenomena in the macroscopic
world, shouldn't the name of Newton from the Laws of Motion be struck
off and replaced by Schrödinger, Heisenberg, Dirac, Fermi, Feynman, et
al, and from the Universal Law of Gravitation to be replaced by Albert
Einstein? Since the same God offered the title of Discoverer to the
individual who first understood God's Great Book?

Sir, could I be pardoned for writing this tiny note and given the
opportunity to atone for my sins of misplaced beliefs?

Regards,
Rajib