One hundred years ago this month, Cambridge University Press in England published a book that lost money, that according to one of its two co-authors was probably read in full by only six people, but ...

The first edition of Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica was sold for $3.7 million at Christie’s on Wednesday, becoming the most expensive printed science book ever sold at auction—[insert joke ...

THE great achievement of the authors of “Principia Mathematica” is to have deduced mathematics by strict symbolic reasoning from a small number of logical propositions. This was previously attempted ...