“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 ...

Discover the list of 9 most famous mathematicians in history. Learn about Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, whose ideas shaped ...

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 ...

DRESDEN, Germany – A German 16-year-old has become the first person to solve a mathematical problem posed by Sir Isaac Newton more than 300 years ago. Shouryya Ray worked out how to calculate exactly ...

Silver was worth more on the continent as bullion than it was in the UK as tender, so arbitrageurs shipped coins abroad, ...

Sir Isaac Newton, a revolutionary scientist, is widely attributed with the quote, “Live your life as an exclamation rather ...

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 ...