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July 5, 2007 at 6:30 pm · Filed under Open source (english), Syre

Principia Mathematica 320 years, Spam 70 years and Debian Social Contract 10 years. Things that changed the world?

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  1. Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho said,

    July 5, 2007 @ 10:43 pm

    Whitehead and Russell wrote Principia Mathematica much later than 300 years ago, in 1910 or so.

    Oh, you mean Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica? :)

  2. Daniel Burrows said,

    July 6, 2007 @ 5:27 am

    Your post suffers from domain confusion, or at least my brain does.

    Also, for some reason Epiphany cleared this form when I forgot to type the magic number up above, then hit the back button. This doesn’t happen on most sites, so I wonder if it’s something you’re telling it to do. It would be nice if it didn’t do that.

  3. Peter Makholm said,

    July 6, 2007 @ 10:27 am

    IIRC ‘Principia Mathematica’ is a common shortening of the full title of Newton’s work. But at the moment I have no other source than “the Wikipedia page says so too”.

    Daniel, I would look into that problem.

  4. Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho said,

    July 6, 2007 @ 11:25 am

    Yes it is. I just happen to be too much of a logician that the name first associates to the Whitehead and Russell book and only several seconds later I realize you meant Newton’s book. I was trying to humorously communicate my own initial confusion and its resolution :)

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