principle of least time การใช้
- Rejecting Descartes'solution, Pierre de Fermat arrived at the same solution based solely on his principle of least time.
- The phenomenon of Heptapod B is explained by the aliens'understanding of mathematics and Fermat's principle of least time.
- Fermat refined and generalized this to " light travels between two given points along the path of shortest " time " " now known as the " principle of least time ".
- This was generalized to refraction by Pierre de Fermat, who, in the 17th century, refined the principle to " light travels between two given points along the path of shortest " time " "; now known as the "'principle of least time "'or "'Fermat's principle " '.