Word: principia
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Married. Laura Louise Shepard, 21, older daughter of Astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American into space; and Army 2nd Lieut. Jonathan Churchill Snyder, 23, a former schoolmate at Principia College, Elsah, Ill.; in a Methodist ceremony in Houston...
...newspaper ad placed by Honeywell Inc. to attract computer technicians was a high-class bit of copy and featured drawings of those two great authors of Principia Mathematica, Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) and Bertrand Russell (1872-1967). The late Bertrand Russell? Hardly. At 96, he is very much alive at his home in Wales. And when he heard that Honeywell also makes anti-personnel bombs as well as computers, he was even more willing to carry out a lawsuit he had filed for unauthorized use of his name and picture. After dryly noting the "somewhat misleading legend" about...
...refusing to pay any attention to getting his work published. Newton is the type of the Scientific Genius. But there is a more sordid, or at least more human, side to Newton's life. After quarreling with one astronomer (John Flamsteed) he removed from the second edition of the Principia all passages from the first edition in which he had acknowledged his debt to the man. In a paper once, Newton implied that Leibniz had borrowed his idea for the calculus from one of Newton's manuscripts. And as the furor over this question spread through scientific Europe, Newton played...
...After unanswerable questions like that, Bertie developed the confidence he needed to decide that New ton's calculus was "a tissue of fallacies" and to begin his historic collaboration with Alfred North Whitehead, his senior in college. That resulted, after ten years' labor, in the publication of Principia Mathematica, named after Newton's great work, which in many respects it superseded. Almost as soon as the bulky manuscript had been trundled to the university printer in a handcart, young Bertie-Puck, Pan, Pythagoras and Peer -found himself famous, acclaimed as a philosophic genius throughout the civilized world...
Mathematics had been partially unshackled from the physical world by the discovery of non-Euclidean geometrics in the nineteenth century, but the publication of Principia Mathematica in 1908 burst the chains. This three-volume monument by Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead expressed the fundamental concepts of mathematics in terms of still simpler concepts of logic, and showed that mathematics may be viewed as a game of manipulating symbols according to rules. Since mathematicians can adopt any rules they want, the truths proved in mathematics can have no necessary connection with the world outside of mathematics...