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

“If I have seen further,” declared the great 17th-century English scientist Sir Isaac Newton, “it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” This season marks Newton’s 375th birthday, and his ...

Isaac Newton’s Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (known by its shortened Latin name, the Principia) is a massive, three-volume 17th-century treatise that is one of the most influential ...

Isaac Newton laid the foundations of modern science through his work in motion, gravity, optics, and mathematics. This video ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Math That Takes Newton Into the Quantum World | RealClearScienceIn my 50s, too old to become a real expert, I have finally fallen in love with algebraic geometry. As the name suggests, this is the ...