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

In science and mathematics, it has been a fairly common occurrence for two different people/teams to be working on the same ...

Sir Isaac Newton -- best known for his exploits in science and math -- was also a Christian who put his analytical mind to work to calculate when he thought the current age would end with the ...

Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and his System of the World. Translated into English by Andrew Motte. in 1729. The translations revised, ...

Ever since the Ancient Greeks, scientists and philosophers had dreamed of discovering the mathematical laws that run the universe. But it took the genius of Isaac Newton to really discover those laws.

In the 19th century, for instance, the Russian mathematician Pafnuty Chebyshev proposed a version of Newton’s method that approximated functions with cubic equations (which have an exponent of 3). But ...