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14 Jul 2020

AI solves calculations that astronomers since Newton have struggled with

To make sure a planetary system is stable, astronomers need to calculate the motions of multiple interacting planets over billions of years. Astronomers since Isaac Newton have wrestled with the problem of orbital stability. Modern astronomers still have to `brute-force` the calculations, albeit with supercomputers instead of abaci or slide rules.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

01 Jul 2018

Google doodle celebrates 372nd birth anniversary of German philosopher Leibniz

In philosophy, Leibniz is most noted for his conclusion that our Universe is, in a restricted sense, the best possible one that God could have created, an idea that was often lampooned by others such as Voltaire.

Stephen Hawking

21 Mar 2018

Stephen Hawking to be laid to rest near graves of Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin

Isaac Newton was buried at the Abbey following his death in 1727, as was naturalist Charles Darwin a century and a half later in 1882.

11 Dec 2017

Isaac Newton, the artist? Graffiti sketched by scientist as a young boy discovered

The sketch is thought to have been inspired by the building of a mill nearby during Newton's childhood.

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