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Re:Mathics – A free, light-weight alternative to Mathematica by jweir on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @03:28PM (#19852631)
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica - Isaac Newton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophi%C3%A6_Naturalis_Pri...

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Re:Mathics – A free, light-weight alternative to Mathematica by matt2019 on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @03:55PM (#19852884)
While I have this book in front of me: "all sorts of people were telling me that I needed to put quotes on the back cover of the book [A New Kind of Science] ... Steve said, 'Isaac Newton didn't have back-cover quotes; why do you want them?'"
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Re:Mathics – A free, light-weight alternative to Mathematica by tom_ on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @07:26PM (#19854407)
This reminds me of one of my favourite Ayn Rand quotes: after being asked to shorten John Galt's (interminable, 70-odd-page, tiny print) speech in Atlas Shrugged - "Would you cut the Bible?"!
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