Word: principia
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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...