NEWTON — The Akamai Foundation has given the city's public schools a $75,000 grant to help boost the Calculus Project, a district-wide program aimed at narrowing the achievement gap for low-income ...

August 16, 2007 New research suggests that a key aspect of the calculus, commonly attributed to Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibnitz in the late 1600s, may in fact have been discovered more than ...

There’s a certain four letter word that strikes great fear into the hearts of many people: math. It has a reputation for being a subject of the elite — a terrible, confusing, jumbled mess of illogical ...

Isaac Newton changed the way we understand the Universe. Revered in his own lifetime, he discovered the laws of gravity and motion and invented calculus. He helped to shape our rational world view.

Last week at the Newton Blog, my colleague Ross Pomeroy discussed a famous puzzle known as one of Zeno's Paradoxes. He presented the resolution of the problem of fitting infinitely many things into a ...

Is the Newton-and-the-apple story true? Does anybody really understand the Principia? Was Newton a nice guy? In this interview, Dr. Jed Buchwald, an historian of physics and professor of history at ...

Stuck in a mind numbing traffic jam, a la Bengaluru, I could not help but think how all of this came to being. Even a hundred years ago it was unthinkable that the roads would be chock full of self ...

Work from home is great, right? Boss isn’t around to oversee, colleagues aren’t around to annoy, you can watch Netflix on the side, you can totally not bathe, not brush. Etc, etc, etc. This is what it ...

Last week at the Newton Blog, my colleague Ross Pomeroy discussed a famous puzzle known as one of Zeno's Paradoxes. He presented the resolution of the problem of fitting infinitely many things into a ...