“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 ...

Newton famously declared that he saw farther because he stood on the shoulders of giants. This quotation befits the self-effacing titan who pried off the lid and exposed the gears and levers of nature ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...