Today, we celebrate the birthday of one of the most important human beings to walk the face of the Earth. On this day, in 1642, Sir Isaac Newton was born. He would be 371. Newton was a physicist and ...

August 16, 2007 New research suggests that a key aspect of the calculus, commonly attributed to Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibnitz in the late 1600s, may in fact have been discovered more than ...

Isaac Newton did not just invent calculus and rewrite physics, he also tried to calculate the end of the world with the same ...

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If you asked people strolling down Fifth Avenue to name a genius, most would probably cite Albert Einstein. "Ask them to name another one, it would be (Isaac) Newton," said Mordechai Feingold, curator ...

Isaac Newton is believed to BE the greatest scientist who ever lived. He was also a mathematician, physician and philosopher. He had also formulated theories about motion, gravity and calculus among ...

A huge collection of papers belonging to pioneering scientist Sir Isaac Newton – the father of gravity – has been posted online by Cambridge University. The archive includes Newton’s college notebooks ...

The great Greek scientist, engineer and mathematician Archimedes left us two quotes that ring through the centuries. His study of levers is said to have led him to remark, “Give me a place to stand, ...

Math teacher Ben Orlin writes and draws the (aptly named) blog Math With Drawings and is the author of a new book, Change Is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World. To mark its ...

Work from home is great, right? Boss isn’t around to oversee, colleagues aren’t around to annoy, you can watch Netflix on the side, you can totally not bathe, not brush. Etc, etc, etc. This is what it ...