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Principia Mathematica

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(thing) by Gorgonzola (8.9 hr) (print)   ?   Wed Jun 21 2000 at 3:42:40

The title of Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead's mammoth 1912 attempt to bring all arithmetic under a formal axiom system.

One curious aspect of Principia Mathematica is that it does not prove 1 + 1 = 2 until page 362.
The name Principia Mathematica is also used to refer to Sir Isaac Newton's landmark work Principia Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis.

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