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...ending problem sets, these concentrators dress comfortably and in layers to mitigate Cabot Science Library’s fluctuating climates. Cargo pants are a staple for the mathematically-inclined, as the pockets provide easy carrying space for calculators, protractors, and Sir Issac Newton’s “Principia Mathematica.” In addition to their array of free OCS T-shirts, these number-crunchers dress up any outfit with tees bearing mathematical jokes (“Will you lie tangent to my curves?”) that no one outside the Science Center finds even remotely humorous...
...Cohen considered his most important work to be his 1999 translation of Newton’s Principia Mathematica, which was a collaboration with the late Anne Whitman ’59 and took 15 years to complete...
Cohen began working on this book, together with a co-author, Anne Whitman, in 1974. In 1972, Cohen and Whitman published an edition of Principia, in Latin, that combined all three editions of Newton's Principia, showing the transformation of the work from the original to the third edition...
...publication of Cohen and Whitman's Latin edition was almost universally praised, according to Cohen. The comparison of Newton's three editions offered insight into the development of Newton's ideas, and shed light on the progression of Principia's important concepts...
...special field, the scientific revolution, focuses on the activities of the 16th and 17th centuries," he said. "Isaac Newton was a key figure, and many consider his Principia to be the high point of the revolution...