Isaac Newton‘s monumental book, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, was published July 5, 1687. Newton had ...

'Principia Mathematica' Celebrates 100 Years NPR's Robert Siegel talks to math writer Julie Rehmeyer about the 100th anniversary of Principia Mathematica, a landmark work in mathematical logic.

The sleuth is Caitlin Dolt ’22. Two university faculty members believe she has identified the “mystery annotator” who wrote corrective notes in Latin in the margins of the university’s copy of the ...

Newton's Laws of Motion is one of the reasons that Sir Isaac Newton is often considered the No. 1 scientist of all time.

Sir Isaac Newton, unquestionably one of the greatest scientists of all time, published his defining book, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, 325 years ago today.The text lays down ...

THIS work contains some thousands of propositions, each, with its proof, expressed in a shorthand so concise that if they were all expanded into ordinary language, the room taken up would be ten ...

Writing in Latin in his 17th-century book Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Newton said, “Every body perseveres in its state of being at rest or of moving uniformly straight forward ...

Think of Denis Diderot’s “Encyclopédie,” Isaac Newton’s “Principia Mathematica,” America’s Bill of Rights, the heroic couplet, neoclassical architecture or even poet William Blake ...

THE great achievement of the authors of “Principia Mathematica” is to have deduced mathematics by strict symbolic reasoning from a small number of logical propositions. This was previously ...