Newslink: Math Book Sells for Record $3.7 Million (Or the Price of Like Two College Textbooks)

in #newslink • 8 years ago

 The first edition of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica  was sold for $3.7 million at Christie's on Wednesday, becoming the most  expensive printed science book ever sold at auction-[insert joke about  outrageous college textbook prices]. Albert Einstein described Newton's seminal 1687 work as "perhaps the greatest intellectual stride that it has ever been granted to any man to make." 

Read the full story : http://www.gizmodo.in/science/math-book-sells-for-record-3-7-million-or-the-price-of-like-two-college-textbooks/articleshow/56011419.cms

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