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6th January
On this day in
1699
,
Newton
wrote to
Flamsteed
, about
Bernoulli
's challenge of the brachistochrone problem, "I do not love to be dunned
[
pestered
]
and teased by foreigners about mathematical things."
See
THIS LINK
.