A new proof marks the first progress in decades on important cases of the so-called kissing problem. Getting there meant ...

When Newton left Cambridge in April 1696 to take up, at the age of 53, a new career at the London Mint, he did not entirely 'leave off Mathematicks' as he so often publicly declared. This last volume ...

has shocked everyone by solving a 350-year-old mathematical problem which was set by one of the greatest scientists and mathematicians, Sir Isaac Newton. The 16-year-old boy living in from Dresden ...

When Isaac Newton inscribed onto parchment his now ... But according to a philosopher of language and mathematics, we might have been interpreting Newton's precise wording of his first law of ...

Newton enrolled at Trinity College, Cambridge. Here he found a father figure who set him on the road to important discoveries. Isaac Barrow, Cambridge's first professor of mathematics, steered ...

But while Isaac Newton was busy discovering the universal ... where a newfound fascination with science and mathematics coexisted with extreme views on religious doctrine. Newton shared both ...

The secret behind how the International Space Station remains in orbit can be traced all the way back to the genius of Sir ...

"If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants" Sir Isaac Newton was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, inventor and natural philosopher who is ...

Here is buried Isaac Newton, Knight, who by a strength of mind almost divine, and mathematical principles peculiarly his own, explored the course and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, the ...

The bringing together, in an annotated and critical edition, of all the known mathematical papers of Isaac Newton marks a step forward in the publication of the works of this great natural philosopher ...

When Isaac Newton inscribed onto parchment his now ... But according to a philosopher of language and mathematics, we might ...