Editing Principia Mathematica (section)

== Legacy ==

[[Andrew David Irvine|Andrew D. Irvine]] says that ''PM'' sparked interest in symbolic logic and advanced the subject by popularizing it; it showcased the powers and capacities of symbolic logic; and it showed how advances in philosophy of mathematics and symbolic logic could go hand-in-hand with tremendous fruitfulness.<ref name="SEP"/> ''PM'' was in part brought about by an interest in [[logicism]], the view on which all mathematical truths are logical truths. Though flawed, ''PM'' would be influential in several later advances in meta-logic, including [[Gödel's incompleteness theorems]].{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}

The logical notation in ''PM'' was not widely adopted, possibly because its foundations are often considered a form of [[Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory]].{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}

Scholarly, historical, and philosophical interest in ''PM'' is great and ongoing, and mathematicians continue to work with ''PM'', whether for the historical reason of understanding the text or its authors, or for furthering insight into the formalizations of math and logic.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}

The [[Modern Library]] placed ''PM'' 23rd in their list of the top 100 English-language nonfiction books of the twentieth century.<ref name="ML"/>