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 ...

Sunday's Google Doodle celebrates the 372nd birthday of mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. He was born near the end of the Thirty Years War, into a world very different from ...

The darker side of Isaac Newton is the theme of a new play currently on show at the New End Theatre in London. Written by the chemist Carl Djerassi, "Calculus" examines Newton's famous dispute with ...

GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ, MATHEMATICIAN: When Isaac first explained his theory of gravity to me, I remember being impressed. Not by the theory, which, as far as I could tell, was basically that stuff falls ...

The BBC’s Melvin Bragg can’t get enough of Isaac Newton and the great physicist’s battles with his fellow scientists. This morning Bragg gathered a cabal of Oxbridge historians to chat about the ...

Together with extracts from Newton's “Principia” and “Opticks”. Edited with Introduction and Notes by H. G. Alexander. (Philosophical Classics.) Pp. lvi + 200. (Manchester: Manchester University Press ...

THIS little book is based on two lectures delivered about three years ago, the first at the Newton tercentenary meeting of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, and the second at a subsequent meeting of ...